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Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Rolls Out With Improvements

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 2 comments
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While betas of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 platform have been available for a number of months after being announced in the last half of 2008, their free software implementation of Silverlight, which is known as Moonlight and developed largely by Novell with the Mono developers, has lagged behind.

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viator ·
The ONLY and i mean ONLY reason anyone is following moonlight is that they hope it will allow them to stream netflix on the linux box. 2.0 does not allow this and im not sure if 3.0 ever will. Because you need the MS DRM cruft
caitlyn ·
The only reason it could become of interest is if web developers started using Silverlight rather than Flash. Considering how many "It's the Microsoft way or the highway" folks are still out there I could see that happening.

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