Analysis: How Moonlight 2.0 Fits into Novell’s Linux and Open Source Plans

“To Novell and its Mono Project, Moonlight 2.0 is of huge
importance to Linux and open source users. As the open source
version of Microsoft Corp.’s expanding Silverlight .Net development
platform, Moonlight 2.0 will allow Linux desktop users to get the
same capabilities as Microsoft Windows desktop users to view and
experience rich Web applications created with Silverlight, which is
becoming more popular with Web developers.

“But to critics of Novell’s moves to align with Microsoft to
offer Moonlight as a way to make Silverlight-enabled content work
for Linux users, the bad karma continues. Instead of this being a
good thing for Novell and Linux users, critics argue, the Moonlight
project helps Microsoft maintain a leadership role in a development
platform that only gives lip service to the open source community,
they say.”

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