Posts Tagged Moonlight
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 [...]
New Moonlight Covenant Coming?
Oh my, it seems there may be a new Moonlight Covenant coming: Updated Patent Covenant We worked with Microsoft to make sure that Moonlight was available to everyone on Linux and BSD. Culturally, we started on two opposite ends of the software licensing spectrum. The covenant that was issued for Moonlight 1 and 2 covered [...]
The Future of Moonlight, II
It seems like just yesterday that Miguel de Icaza took such umbrage at being called a Microsoft apologist. Strange then, that he has now taken up the robes of a Microsoft evangelist, suggesting that it is at-long-last finally time to “start a movement to create a suite of Silverlight-based desktop applications” As I pointed out [...]
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