In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Troy Kirkland
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on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:09:36 -0500
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> ____/ Tom Shelton on Wednesday 27 February 2008 23:57 : \____
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>>> But, Moonlight will be - and MS is helping Novell with the
>>> implementation. Then it will run on any platform mono runs on -
>>> including Linux...
>>
>> Moonlight is not Silverlight (and will never be). No need for spin here.
>> Not to
>> mention the horrid Monopendency...
>
>
> That's because you're too stupid to know
> anything about either one. To a cave man
> a chunk of ice was very different from water.
Still is; one can't drink ice. Also, AFAIK most
water-based chemistry does not function in ice, unless it
melts during the reaction -- a possibility.
(The phase diagram of water is actually rather interesting
but is well beyond the discussion charter of this
newsgroup.)
> Like you, they were stupid and didn't know.
>
> Too bad that you and your fellow shills are too stupid to use Google to
> learn what Moonlight and Silverlight really are. You say they are *not* the
> same. You ought to tell the OSS developers because they seem to think they
> are the same.
Silverlight is a duly-licensed project from Microsoft.
Moonlight is not. (Moonlight *might* be licensed
indirectly, through Novell.)
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>
> http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
>
> <quote>
> *Moonlight*
> A page to track the various projects that make up the Mono-based
> implementation of Silverlight.
>
> The goals are:
>
> To run Silverlight applications on Linux.
Someone is going to have to define "application" properly
in this context. The entire system
(local + server [+ proxy]) is probably an application here.
Presumably, the Linux side can run a local Silverlight client,
using Moonlight API/support. (The issues appear similar to
Java and Kaffe.)
> To provide a Linux SDK to build Silverlight applications.
Can't build Silverlight apps on Linux boxes without a valid Microsoft
license, I suspect. Moonlight and Silverlight-runnable, maybe.
> To reuse the Silverlight engine we have built for desktop applications.
Moonlight engine.
> </quote>
>
You're right...they're very confused. Me, I'm merely
ignorant; I'd have to study the issue. ;-)
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