Microsoft's patent-encumbered "gifts" to GNU/Linux are being pushed into devices with Novell's help
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Moonlight's Olympic-sized failure
Microsoft only produces the Silverlight runtime for Windows and OS X, leaving Linux support to Novell's Mono project, which produces Moonlight. Mono developers argue that Mono is not chasing tail lights, but in the case of Moonlight it very clearly is.
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New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”
More perspectives arrive in response to a technical/legal analysis of Moonlight and Miguel de Icaza's highly-deserved Microsoft MVP award
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gNewSense Abandons Ubuntu, Microsoft’s Mono Agenda Revisited
gNewSense is shifting to Debian codebase, shafting Mono, and the debate about Mono and Moonlight reaches new levels
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Evangelism is War – The Mono/Moonlight Agenda
I was going over an old Groklaw posting that got me thinking about Microsoft and it’s .NET Agenda. I decided to do more research and took a look at the Comes vs Microsoft documents again but from the perspective of the current Mono issues. I am even more convinced that Mono and Moonlight do nothing but help Microsoft win against competing platforms.
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Miguel de Icaza: “We Have Removed All of the GPL Code” (MonoDevelop)
Moonlight “promise” full of legal holes and Novell's Visual Studio surrogate removes GPL code
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Microsoft’s Moonlight “Promise” Full of Holes
Detailed analysis of the Moonlight covenant reveals at least 10 holes that make it unacceptable to Free software desktops and potentially forbidden to "non-desktops"
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The text of the new Moonlight covenant
For the curious, Microsoft has posted the new "covenant not to sue" covering Moonlight 3 and 4. It is still quite narrow"
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Accurate Coverage of Novell
Few new articles accurately describe what is really happening at Novell and what the legal terms really are when it comes to Moonlight
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Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways
Microsoft projects are still upselling a distribution from which Microsoft extracts money for imaginary software patents
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Mono Bullies
Mono and Moonlight are projects that one cannot ever criticise safely
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Salivating Over Silverlight
If Novell's vice president is "droolingly" Microsoft's, then how can Mono and Novell be trusted anymore?
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Silverlight multi-platform support is falling apart
I had previously pointed out that the lack of supported platforms was a serious problem for Silverlight, especially when compared to Flash. The root of the problem was that Moonlight, the Linux version of Silverlight, is usually at least one release behind the Windows and mac versions of Silverlight. This caused confusion for developers as it was not clear which features would work on Linux.
Read more »Is the Mono Project Run Partly by Microsoft Now?
New Mono tools publicly attributed to Microsoft, just like Moonlight
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Mono and Fraud
One reader's thoughts about the spreading of Mono inside GNU/Linux
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