____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:12 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch
> <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:05:56 -0500
> <616pr0bnwabh.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:46:28 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft and Adobe jockey on rich applications
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Scott Guthrie, a general manager in Microsoft's developer division,
>>>| blogged ahead of Adobe's AIR and Flex news that Silverlight 2 would
>>>| feature a cross-platform version of its .NET Framework and let developers
>>>| program Silverlight content using any .NET language.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/25/microsoft_adobe_ria_internet_explorer/
>>>
>>> It's *not* cross-platform. They keep lying about it. They attack HTML,
>>> Flash, LAMP, and Ajax. The US and EU regulators are already after them for
>>> Silverlight abuses.
>>
>> Roy, you are flat out lying on this. Microsoft itself makes Silverlight
>> available on both the PC and Mac. That makes it cross platform. That
>> doesn't even include Moonlight.
>>
>> Why do you lie like this?
>
> Erik does have a point, though we do have a problem as
> well. Silverlight is available on at least two platforms,
> the aforementioned MacOSX as well as Windows. That it is not
> available for Linux doesn't make it non-multiplatform,
> though I for one am very annoyed at the lack of support
> for what is an increasingly popular OS. (Presumably, the
> FreeBSD crowd will be annoyed as well, in their newsgroup.)
>
> Besides, this is COLA anyway. ;-)
>
> There is some good news:
> http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2007/May-05.html
> http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9731410-7.html
>
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-mono-developers-to-bring-silverlight-to-linux.html
>
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/05/04/linux-silverlight-to-arrive-by-year-end
>
> And there's some bad news. Gentoo does not recognize "moonlight"
> as a package name.
>
> Make of all this what one will.
My original post was fine. The Microsoft Agent just wants to warp things to
discredit. More explanation here, if the Agent is interested.
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/26/microsoft-redefines-cross-platform/
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