Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:28:44 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
2.) Moonlight will save *LOTS* of people from having to run Internet
Explorer in order to access sites they MUST use in order to do their
jobs.
Oh come on! At least in its current state, I really doubt that anyone is
actually using silverlight. I have yet to come aross a web site that
uses it.
Philipp
True, beyond the little "playgrounds" MS has probably paid for, no one
is currently using Silverlight, so we probably should just ignore it and
hope it never takes off. If it does become as ubiquitous as Flash,
hopefully by that time it will either be too difficult to try and make a
"catch-up" Linux version, or perhaps by that time MS will just have
realized how powerful a bludgeon it has become and refuse to open it or
modify it for other than pre-approved uses (tried Flash on 64-bit Linux
lateley? Hint - Adobe doesn't care, despite what it has told the
"developers" it has put on the "converting code to 64-bit " job to tell
us.).
As much as we may hate MS software, we must, when given the opportunity,
seize any openness that they will allow, because we all know the MS
way: take something that has been standardized, or suggested to be
standardized, make an implementation that follows little or no
commands/suggestions in the standard, refuse to document or open the MS
way to scrutiny, and by virtue of its market share distribute its
soon-to-be de facto standard among countless users who really don't know
any better.
--Jason
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