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Microsoft delivers Silverlight 1.0, extends support to Linux

Microsoft delivers Silverlight 1.0, extends support to Linux

Posted Sep 7, 2007 13:49 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094)
Parent article: Microsoft delivers Silverlight 1.0, extends support to Linux

Take a look at the license terms. Also notice that they only offer patent protection if you get it from novell. Nice little vendor lock in. Also you can't redistribute your versions b/c you don't carry the patent protection with you when you give it to someone else.

Good posts to read on the subject:
http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/06/simon-phipps-and-moonli...

http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/the_lure

-sv


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Microsoft delivers Silverlight 1.0, extends support to Linux

Posted Sep 8, 2007 13:33 UTC (Sat) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

But of course that's only a problem in a few countries.

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