arstechnica.com — Microsoft has officially released Silverlight 1.0 and announced full support for Silverlight on the Linux platform in collaboration with Novell. Miguel de Icaza, Novell's vice president of developmer platforms, tells Ars more and provides insight into Microsoft's shifting position on open source.
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geokenSep 6, 2007
I think it's insulting when they try and act like this was some kind of grass roots movement on the part of the open source community. Am I the only one who finds it suspect that these guys would work 12-16 hour days for almost a month straight to have their app ready for an Microsoft PR event while claiming they're doing this for the open source community and not because the company they work for is essentially MS's bitch?
fanonSep 6, 2007
The same could be said about the Apple-heads, except they pay "their master" $150ish almost every year for minimal improvements and bug fixes.We use what we use because we like it as opposed to the alternatives. I like having support for any hardware I purchase. You don't; should I bash you because of it?
dillinger23Sep 6, 2007
DeIcaza has always been shamelessly copying Microsoft technologies.Did you forget the abomination called bonobo ? The crap that is Mono ?The FUD he spread about Java ?I feel pitty for those who fell for his marketing propaganda.We don't want him or his company's substandard and aliento UNIX solutions anywhere near our systems.The community should give him and his minions a clearmessage this time.
cojestSep 6, 2007
who needs m$ to support linux?
schestowitzSep 7, 2007
It's a problem with Digg. These double-posts show up for no reason once in about a hundred comments. No idea as to why and other have the same issue.
ilgazSep 23, 2007
Funny, story is in "Microsoft" topic along with Windows things. Nothing could show what Silverlight and that MS Puppet in Open Source scene better.
ilgazSep 23, 2007
So you want DRM in open source operating system? I mean, that is what you want, I wanted to make it clear if you don't know already.Not just DRM, you will also have Microsoft binary DRM on the operating system which made some of their offerings extinct. Why don't you install windows? It is cheap.