Rex Ballard wrote:
> On Jan 21, 9:57 am, Hadron <hadronqu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Rex Ballard <rex.ball...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > On Jan 20, 9:21 pm, Tim Smith <reply_in_gr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Moonlight and Mono enable Linux users (and Mac PPC users) to watch
>> >> streaming Obama inauguration:
>> >> <http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jan-20.html>
>
>> >> Roy said this would never happen. Microsoft would never let
>> >> Moonlight
>> >> advance to handle the current version of Silverlight. Well, not
>> >> only did they "allow" it, they provided help late into the night to
>> >> help the Mono/Moonlight developers test.
>
>> > And it still wasn't enough. I tried to install Moonlight on a RHEL5
>> > Desktop system before the inauguration and it wouldn't install.
>> > Microsoft's token efforts to give Mono legitimacy and avoid more
>> > claims of monopoly building, backfired.
>
>> You are blaming MS for a Linux clone not installing on Red Hat?
>
> Tim claims that Microsoft did everything they needed to do to support
> Mono/Moonlight and make sure that it was ready for a major event that
> was supposed to be a major demonstration of Microsoft's newest toy.
>
> I pointed out that whatever Microsoft contributed, it wasn't enough.
It was enough. Moonlight was ready for download for SuSE/Novell
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