Mono Coders Hack Linux Silverlight in 21 Days 409
Etrigoth writes "After the recent announcement of Silverlight by Microsoft at their Mix event in Vegas, Miguel de Icaza
galvanised his team of developers in the Mono group at Novell to create a Linux implementation, a so-called 'Moonlight'.
Remarkably, they achieved this in 21 Days.
Although they were first introduced to Silverlight at the Las Vegas Mix, de Icaza was invited by a representative of Microsoft France for a
10 minute demonstration at the Paris Re-Mix 07 keynote conference, should they have anything to show.
Joshua, a blogger for Microsoft has confirmed that the Mono team did not know anything about Silverlight 1.1 before its launch. Other members of this team have blogged about this incredible achievement, Moonlight hack-a-thon. It's worth noting from a developer perspective that Moonlight is not Mono and doesn't require Mono to work"
Joshua, a blogger for Microsoft has confirmed that the Mono team did not know anything about Silverlight 1.1 before its launch. Other members of this team have blogged about this incredible achievement, Moonlight hack-a-thon. It's worth noting from a developer perspective that Moonlight is not Mono and doesn't require Mono to work"
Re:The MS teams (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And the novelty is... ? (Score:5, Funny)
Strictly speaking, Linux developers copied Microsoft's copy of a product acquired by Adobe from FutureSplash via Macromedia.
Re:And the novelty is... ? (Score:5, Funny)
That's not strict at all.
Microsoft used their copy of Java (.NET) to create a copy of FutureSplash which Adobe acquired via Macromedia, and Linux developers used their copy of Microsoft's copy of Java (.NET) to create a copy of the copy of FutureSplash.
Re:Wonderful (Score:3, Funny)
"... I'm doing this on Windows Vista and Internet Explorer, but you can just as easily do this on Windows XP, Firefox, or even a Mac in - [audio suddenly cuts off]
I suppose he was going to say Safari? In any case it was sloppy editing.
He must not have edited this with Silverlight, because Silverlight makes precision editing so easy.
Re:And the novelty is... ? (Score:2, Funny)
That's definitely not the case in this thread.
Re:That's great! (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Go Miguel (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cool, but ultimately pointless (Score:3, Funny)
As a desktop Linux user of many years, I couldn't care if Satan himself made an open-source, open-standards competitor to Flash(ism): I'd gladly use it and encourage it's distribution.
Congrats to Miguel & Co.
Re:Wonderful (Score:2, Funny)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov [wikipedia.org]
Re:No Mono in Moonlight (Score:2, Funny)
Steps:
1. Install Mono 1.2.4 for Unix
Re:What is Silverlight? (Score:5, Funny)
Cloud-based? I haven't heard that one before.
Vapourware.
Re:Closer to the subject than anti-trust. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The name (Score:4, Funny)
What's wrong with Monopolight?
Re:Wonderful (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wonderful (Score:5, Funny)
Oh the irony...