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The Future of Moonlight
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| Miguel de Icaza has spoken on The Future of
| Moonlight, and it is revealing.
|
| We could use Silverlight to build the
| next wave of cross-platform desktop
| applications.
|
| Really? We can use closed-source
| Silverlight to build cross-platform desktop
| applications? Iâve often said that a
| significant side effect of all the Team
| Mono propaganda is promoting Microsoft, and
| statements like this are exactly what I
| mean.
|
| Here we have a clear endorsement for a
| closed-source, proprietary Microsoft
| technology with whom only Novell has any
| sort of âcovenantâ as the future for cross-
| platform development. In what FLOSS circles
| is that an acceptable proposal?
|
| [...]
|
| This also touches on the point I make that
| Team Mono / Moonlight is making no great
| strides for Linux. They spend a ton of
| effort on iPhone, Unity engine, and now PS3
| and Wii? You might recall a long-winded
| apologetic where the argument on how
| beneficial Mono would be to Linux was the
| major selling point. Somewhere along the
| line that whole argument got shifted to how
| beneficial Mono would be to .NET
| developers.
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http://www.the-source.com/2009/11/the-future-of-moonlight/
It's about spreading .NET, XAML and other Microsoft software,
not about spreading GNU/Linux, only deforming it.
Related:
Miguel de Icaza: "We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with
Moonlight"
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| de Icaza: This is a new group inside of Novell. Basically my team grew from
| about 30 to 40 people over the last year and a half. Most of the hires went
| to Moonlight, so now with 15 people working on Moonlight, the biggest part
| are new hires.
|
| [...]
|
| derStandard.at: You talked about re-using Silverlight / Moonlight for the
| desktop, is there already some concrete work happening, or are those still
| just ideas for the future?
|
| de Icaza: We are actually doing that right now, we have a couple of projects.
| Lunar Eclipse is our Silverlight designer for Linux and that is actually
| built entirely as a desktop Silverlight application. The idea is to have both
| a desktop and a web version. We also built Moonlight desklets, which is like
| Apples Dashboard.
|
| I am also trying to convince people that we need to redo certain desktop
| components using Moonlight because we could get a flashier, nicer user
| interface with the designers actually prototyping this interface in Inkscape
| or blender.
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http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216918402134
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