Comments on: Moonlight - Open Source Silverlight on Mono

By: Paul Annesley

Paul Annesley — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:21:37 +0000

Well… I said this was one to keep an eye on, but I didn’t expect to see a result quite so soon.

Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days - Miguel de Icaza’s web log

Incredible work from the Mono / Moonlight team.

By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:23:43 +0000

@Dr. Livingston:

I was not aware that someone “owned” the rich client sphere of development. Or do you like being stuck with a single solution in that space?

Insofar as security goes, MS’ record of late has been very, very good. Arguably better than linux or apache. Nevermind RoR or PHP.

@Paul:

One can argue open source provides freedom. One can also argue that open source projects are often too chaotic or too poorly documented to be usable. It is a tool in the arsenal, but it is not a panacea nor a magic bullet for making good software. You need just as much, if not more, dedicated project management to bring a solid open source project to fruition as you need to make a solid closed source project to fruition.

By: Paul Annesley

Paul Annesley — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:47:18 +0000

I like freedom. Maybe that’s just me.

By: wdny

wdny — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:45:10 +0000

Exactly why is open source such magic word, that doesn’t make any sense.

By: Paul Annesley

Paul Annesley — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:45:08 +0000

> So why is “open source” such a magic word?

Open source provides freedom, especially to developers. (That’s us).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:43:41 +0000

cannot see what the noise is about? just another way for those microsoft developers to infringe in our area of development, so nothing new there… but as with all things microsoft you need to be aware of possible (obvious?) security issues that are common with new software releases from microsoft.

what a gotcha huh? that should be enough of a warning for anyone who is going to jump in with both feet… anyways, at the end of the day your either with microsoft or not, so it splits about even doesn’t it?

> So why is “open source” such a magic word?

i mean, between propriety and open source technologies.

dr livingston, as always :)

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:31:35 +0000

Well, someone could modify the mono implementation of silverlight to output svg instead of xaml.

By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:20:05 +0000

So why is “open source” such a magic word?

By: Saumendra Swain

Saumendra Swain — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:53:28 +0000

First of all , MS Silverlight needs to track down the multi-layer bugs , than it needs time and patience to test and realise its usefullness. Mono is arround 5 years now and I think its own status is not so much in the active web as it should have. Well with the hope that every technology need some open space to grow and flourish, I too bet on MONO’s Moonlight Project.