This is absolutely terrible. Moonlight is .NET. Microsoft controls it. Microsoft rattles sabers. Yet again, Mr. de Icaza carries water for Microsoft, enabling them to say that Silverlight (XAML) works in Linux. It doesn't. They want to poison all Linux distros with patent-encumbered technology or have people barred from Web sites.

Another bad move from Novell, which did a similar mistake when it supported OOXML.

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Thanks for bringing that up Roy. I was only considering the notion of porting .NET to Linux as being a positive in terms of fostering interest in the platform among Microsoft's huge ISV ecosystem. I'm with you on the addition of patent-encumbered technology as being horrible thing. But I'm not sure anyone would want to (or could/should) redistribute .NET as though it were the Berkeley IP stack. I look at it as nothing more than a plug-in like the the Flash player itself. Too bad there will never be a true OS alternative to .NET.

Yay! Silverblight! Does it enforce LGA?

http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/

I poo-poo silverblight. Why not use open formats for streaming media? See the OGG site.

So Novell bring compatibility to Linux for potentially thousands of Windows applications therefore making it easier to migrate people from Windows to Linux and they're villains? I don't get you people. You cut your noses off to spite you face.

If you can do any better, then do so. It's easy to talk about it, at least Novell is doing something constructive, not least of all defeating Sco.

Yes I would prefer a J2EE app over .Net any day but I'd rather have the app than not. F-Spot and Beagle are both Mono based and they work well enough.

The world is full of back seat drivers.

Cheers to Paul Smyth!!!!

Cheers to Novell!

Now the rest of you negative energy people should focus that energy on World of Warcraft or something else less destructrive. Buy a Wii or something; be a benefit to an economy.

Buy some Mandriva, Red Hat, or Novell stock; possitive energy.

Microsoft isn't playing nice with others.
I appreciate things that work.
I don't care if it is Linux Mac or Windows. What is underneath making it all work doesn't really matter much. I want to do it all without waiting or jumping through pointless hoops. If it can be detected then detect it.
If it can be communicated with then communicate with it. Don't tell me how it works; just make it work fast simple easy without nagging me.
If someone made it work and then gave it away freely, then we aught to give credit to the one to whom credit is due. If someone makes things not work on purpose then we should place all the blame and frustration that arises firmly on the shoulders of the one responsible.

Why didn't Microsoft make XP-Vista? XP worked well. Vista works very badly. Hardware and software worked in XP. Hardware and software don't work in vista to much of the time. And why? Because Microsoft isn't playing nice with others. Kinda like a bad step child. "I wont play with you unless you give me a nickel." Or "my mommy made me play with you but I am going to tell everyone that I don't like you and that your not my friend."

Linux wants to play with everyone and tries to make it easy for everyone and everything to play together in harmony. If you make a driver for Linux they will include it. Linux will not upgrade as an excuse to just forget you exist. Linux even wants to run every driver including all windows drivers. Linux tries to run all windows programs from dos to xp, by using emulators like wine and dosbox. So let me see, Microsoft vista is exclusive while Linux is inclusive. XP compatibility mode for vista is a joke.

Dosent Microsoft have the XP API; shouldn't XP software work flawlessly?And why doesn't DOS work any more with windows it is very small and it. Wouldn't cost anything to include it? Why dose vista hate Firefox?
Why wont Microsoft's Vista just play nice?

My vista crashes the desktop without cause and iexplorrer crashes on utube without remembering where it left off.

OS stands for operating system not "Won't operate system." Vista won't operate so many things that it is an obvious downgrade that looks pretty.

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