The best silverlight tools will always be on windows, they sell the tools and sell the platform. Sun also need to get their act together create easy to use development tools for JavaFX so that the cafe late drinking set who are fluent in Photoshop can sit down and put together a rich internet experience with minimum effort and learning. We need more choice right now Flash is the only thing- everyone gets screwed, and no one benefits from that monopoly. NET to allow it to run on other platforms. NET framework, allow anyone to implement it – create tools that are 100%. Sounds like a good idea – if I were CEO of Microsoft (everyones favourite parlour game), I would completely open and standardise the. They don’t want to keep it to themselves. What does Microsoft get out of having their own proprietary implementation? They don’t sell it. They need to make it ubiquitous, and they need to be make it cross-platform. It’s a development framework that faces serious competition from Java/JavaFX and Flash.

Ultimately I hope that Microsoft realizes that they should just start hacking on Mono/Moonlight. Ultimately I hope Microsoft realises that those who don’t run Windows don’t necessarily hate Microsoft – and as such, are happy to purchase services from Microsoft. I mean, Microsoft won’t provide a client, but if they at least provide assistance, its a damn site more than the lack-there-of of assistance that Adobe provides to gnuash. True – given the state of flash on the platforms, and the lack of support for certain platforms (FreeBSD, Linux on PPC, SPARC etc) – I want to see Adobe step up to the plate and stop treating their customers like trash.

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A bit of competition wouldn’t hurt anybody. I think it is far better that the Linux comunity is in on this action than sitting on the sideline rooting for Adobe. I don’t know, I don’t trust Microsoft any more then the next guy, but then again, in this case they may need as much support as they can get in order to compete with Adobe and in this case it may be to Microsoft’s benefit to help the Free Software comunity with an implementation, for all of the issues people have with Mono, this could be a huge improvement on Adobe’s closed source x86-only flash player.

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