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Microsoft Nurtures Linux Silverlight Port

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“When Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie unveiled
Silverlight at MIX07, he vowed that it would be a cross-platform
technology. It appears as if the software giant is making good on
that pledge: SD Times has learned that some of Microsoft’s top
developers have provided technical guidance for a Linux
implementation of Silverlight.

“Miguel de Icaza, vice president of develop platforms for Novell
and leader of the Mono project, said that Microsoft offered up its
opinion and guidance on how to build a Mono-based implementation of
Silverlight that runs on Linux…”

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