Posts Tagged Moonlight
de Icaza: “We collaborate with Microsoft”
Visual Studio Magazine, of the Redmond Developer Network, has up a short interview with Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza. There’s not much to see here, but I think some minor points shine through despite Mr. de Icaza’s best efforts. Consider the recent “busted myth” that Microsoft is involved in Mono development (which even in the myth-buster piece [...]
Novell in a two-part Fire Sale
The New York Post is reporting that Novell has “reached a deal in principle to sell itself in two parts” in the next month, culminating with Novell being de-listed. According to the Post, the breakdown is SUSE to a “strategic buyer” and the rest to a private-equity firm. Edited 17SEP2010: The Wall Street Journal is [...]
Moonlight’s Olympic-sized failure
Another zealot for the list maintainers to add.
GNOME Foundation Drama III: Part One: Moonlight
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 8, 2010
I don’t know about “free software”. Even after more than a decade it’s still an alien term for me. I know it is “opensource” for as far as I’m concerned. And that’s all I care about. – Philip Van Hoof, GNOME Foundation Member Usually I turn to HBO or Showtime to provide me with my [...]
The H On Moonlight
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Novell, Propriatery Technology on January 19, 2010
The H Open has a new article up, “Health Check: Moonlight“. Although it is a high-level overview/summary-style piece, let me point out a few things I found interesting. de Icaza is an enthusiast and long term advocate of Microsoft technologies…. Say it ain’t so! Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza once took great exception to be [...]
More on the Moonlight Covenant
Reactions are coming in from all over now about the new Moonlight Covenant and I have yet to run across one that thinks it is a good thing. This means More Moonlight Covenant problems in addition to the 10 I already laid out. Moonlight still not acceptable in Fedora Unsurprisingly, the new “covenant” doesn’t change Fedora’s [...]
10 Problems with the New Moonlight Covenant
So, the all-new all-updated Covenant to End Users of Moonlight 3 and 4 is up! Here’s the text, to save you a trip: Covenant to End Users of Moonlight 3 and 4 Microsoft, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby covenants not to sue End Users for infringement under Necessary Claims of Microsoft and [...]
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