● 11.21.09

●● Telepathy a Plugin Away from Mono (Non-ECMA Parts)

Posted in GNOME, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mono, Novell at 10:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: The road to Mono, courtesy of Novell projects; Moonlight never meant to be Silverlight compatible

BACK in July we showed that Novell was integrating Moonlight and Banshee (also see [1, 2, 3]). This is problematic for many reasons and it leads to more interaction or risky interdependencies in GNOME – ones that involve Mono and "illegal" parts of it in particular [1, 2, 3, 4].

Now we find that Telepathy gets a link to Novell’s Banshee. A similar link to Mono also exists in Evolution, which is a Novell product that falls under GNOME.

Separately, in relation to this report about Windows bias in Silverlight (very much anticipated), Oiaohm tells us: “This here is a pure repeat of what Microsoft did to Java [...] Adding platform depend[dent] extensions to try to limit its range.”

What might Moonlight developers (Novell/Microsoft) have to say about this? █

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