Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
Novell will provide Moonlight plugins for FF2 and FF3 that will be
compatible with supported versions (meaning not end-of-life) of major
linux distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu, [open]SuSE, probably RedHat) on
i586 and x86_64.
And Gentoo? :-) Ok, not Gentoo, but 100% open source from the start, right?
Now that you put it this way, I am interested. If users can simply
install a plugin rather than the whole Mono environment, then Moonlight
could be a reasonable target for new application development.
What kind of timeline are we talking about? Will Novell release alpha
versions of this plugin soon? I would prefer an early, broken release
over a late release.
Still, Mono and Moonlight are tainted by Microsoft and Microsoft has
treated me badly for a long time. OTOH, Novell hasn't done me wrong
yet. I'm wary of the patent threat, but Novell has an awful lot of
experience in patent suits, so maybe Novell has answers for those of us
who are concerned. If I develop a Moonlight app and Microsoft later
decides to assert some hidden patent against Mono, how will I be
protected from legal action by Microsoft?
Shane
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