Still no Opera support?

I think I will stick with pure AJAX, rather then hop in bed with the devil, thank-you very much

Is the licence DFSG free?

"availability tomorrow (Tuesday) of Silverlight 2.0, which supports Mac, Linux , Firefox and Safari "

This is going to be one of those funny 'supports' which translates as either 'doesn't' or 'just until you rely on it, then doesn't'

I was tempted to install it once but i woke up and really asked the hard question: Do i really want err need to go to that site? Nope, my life still goes on, Tivo'ed the highlights of the Olympics instead. I no longer use any MS products so MS GFYS i'm not putting that vulnerability on my system. Ohh, its not yet? Watch it will be......... DRM? have another GFYS and have an ESAD while you're at it.

Yeah, I'm sure that Microsoft hasn't ever cheated their partners or clients or competitors by breaking such "promises", and they'll CERTAINLY never do it in the future.

Hmm, it's open, yeah great, but is it FREE as in FREEDOM?

I think I'll avoid it like the plague.

Rob

"Silverlight Digital Rights Management (DRM) using Microsoft's PlayReady technology.®"

I doubt it.

We don't need no more stinkin' plugins!

I'm sure it won't overtake flash, but if you want to get a bit of rich content and you don't want to fork out for/find a warez torrent of the latest version of the Flash development tools, it might be passingly useful.

I rather like the idea of being able to use Ruby to write stuff with too, although until I've explored it in detail I'm not entirely sure whether the IronRuby implementation is any use at all.

"Embrace, extend, extinguish". Does this sound familiar to anyone? Do the people working with Microsoft on Silverlight, Mono, and other projects learn anything from history? Or are they so short-sighted that they don't believe Microsoft will do it to them this time around? Unlike the dozens ir not hundreds of times Microsoft has done it to others in their 30 years of sucking people in then cutting them off at the knees?

Work with Microsoft, get burned. Can't help but wonder when the current crop of idiots will get theirs. Me, I'm staying far, far away. Dealing with Microsoft is like dealing with a Daveel from Asprin's Myth Adventures. If you think you got a good deal you need to first count your fingers, then your limbs, then your relatives (and teeth, and testicles, and wallet, and everything else you own), because some of them will likely have been included as part of the deal.