On Wednesday, 20 June 2012 07:59:47 UTC+1, fcassia wrote: > > > > But wait, it gets better: > > ----- > > But why is his company Xamarin suddenly dropping Moonlight? de Icaza > explains, "Silverlight has not gained much adoption on the web, so it did > not become the must-have technology that I thought would have to become." > So he was hoping to reap the benefit of providing a cross-platform solution and it didn't pay off. He won't be the first, or the last. I didn't welcome Silverlight with open arms when it arrived - more a feeling of "not another plugin", and at the time (2007) it wasn't at all clear which way HTML5 would be going.
> In addition, "Microsoft added artificial restrictions to Silverlight that > made it useless for desktop programming." > Isn't it a wakeup call for developers to stay away from Microsoft > technologies such as C#, .NET and Mono. Why to enrich the ecosystem of a > company which is known for abusing its power to weaken free software? > I don't see this as a wake-up call at all, just another reminder that Microsoft can't be fully trusted to stand behind any statements it makes about long-term support for anything that isn't core to its business. And even then... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/Tl0wf_wK4NkJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
