AS WE POINTED out early in the week, Microsoft Moonlight is mostly promoted by the Microsoft crowd [1, 2]. This is predictable and consistent with the evidence. Novell just needs to disseminate its DNA inside GNU/Linux and then come along with Microsoft to claim special ownership of it. But who again is Novell with?

It's time certain pro-MONOpolists faced the fact that Mono only exists to serve Microsoft. Take away Novell employees' contractual obligation to follow the company's agenda, and suddenly Mono becomes redundant.

The open-source version of Microsoft's Silverlight is adopting hardware-based decoding for video, a move that will boost multimedia on Linux devices.

Novell made more reliant on Microsoft, then spreads more of its patents-protected technology inside GNU/Linux

A step-by-step tour of Moonlight installation (bumpers on the road)

An illustration of the evolution of GNOME under Novell's watch .

A 2-year-old post serves as another warning about Mono