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krschultz, what kind of danger you're talking about? Just curious.
by AlexTheFounder 18y ago
krschultz, what kind of danger you're talking about? Just curious.
- krschultz 18y agoOver the summer Microsoft was the one providing the technology for nbcolympics.com (Silverlight). Prominately on the Silverlight website it features the words "cross-platform" and "cross-device". But go to the featured use of it - nbcolympics.com - and it would not play on Linux, or even Windows 2000 or Windows ME. Only Windows XP, Vista, and one version of OS X were supported. Or nbcolympics could have gone with Adobe Flash and everyone could have watched it on any platform. Sure I could install Moonlight (the Mono project's version of Silverlight) but it didn't WORK for Linux. To me if Mono and Silverlight took over the web we'd go to a stage where everyone thought it was cross-platform because Microsoft says so and there are these projects, but people using Linux get a terrible experience. Users don't care why that is, they just know it would suck, and Microsoft would hobble Linux for another few years. The Mono project is enabling that, and that is why a lot of people who are FOSS contributors don't like them. Myself included.