●●● From Techrights
This page contains links to the many posts that we have about Moonlight. We also have separate pages about Mono Applications and Mono.
●● May 2012
Death of Moonlight Celebrated by Linux Bloggers
●● November 2010
Miguel de Icaza Was Wrong About Silverlight and .NET
●● October 2010
Microsoft Silver Lie is Virtually Dead. Is Moon Lie Dead Too?
●● July 2010
To Microsoft, Silverlight is Not Moonlight and the World is x86 Binary
●● May 2010
●● March 2010
Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)
●● February 2010
Despite Failure (Rejection by Users and Developers), Novell Carries on Spreading Mono and Moonlight
What Apple Teaches Us About Mono and Moonlight
Novell More of a Reflection of Microsoft as Weeks Go By (more Mono/Moonlight promotion from Novell)
Novell More of a Reflection of Microsoft as Weeks Go By
The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell! ("A complete list of news articles about Moonlight 3.0 preview shows that its biggest fans are Microsoft fans")
The Microsoft Apologists and Boosters Really, Really Like Novell!
●● January 2010
New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”
Locked Out of Mono Blogs, by Silverlight
●● December 2009
DRI CEO: “The Biggest Risk Was That Microsoft Would Come Hell-Bent to Destroy Us… Not Necessarily by Competing” (and discussion about lessons for Mono/Novell)
New Moonlight Covenant Claimed Worse Than the Old One, More Holes Found
gNewSense Abandons Ubuntu, Microsoft’s Mono Agenda Revisited
Reactions to Microsoft’s Novell Software Inside GNU/Linux
Microsoft’s Moonlight “Promise” Full of Holes
The Lies About Moonlight Carry on, MSBBC to Block Free Software Users Again
“The Moonlight/Mono World Does Not Work That Way Though.”
Accurate Coverage of Novell ("Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell")
Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways
Microsoft Gave Moonlight “Blessings” in 2007
Mono Bullies ("Mono and Moonlight are projects that one cannot ever criticise safely")
●● November 2009
Novell Supports GNU/Linux-Hostile Software, NASA Excludes With it After Microsoft MoU ("Does Novell pay attention to this at all? It is currently fighting against Microsoft in court over discriminatory extensions and APIs, such as the ones it’s falling for when dealing with Silverlight.")
Novell Supports GNU/Linux-Hostile Software, NASA Excludes With it After Microsoft MoU
Salivating Over Silverlight ("If Novell’s vice president is “droolingly” Microsoft’s, then how can Mono and Novell be trusted anymore?")
Novell’s Vice President Could be Tweeting for Microsoft Dollars ("Miguel de Icaza shows excitement over proprietary Silverlight, proceeds to promotion of closed-source software paradigms for developers")
Novell’s Vice President Could be Tweeting for Microsoft Dollars
Novell and Microsoft Have Big XAML News in Store
Moonlight and Mono Not GNU/Linux Projects Anymore
Novell — Like Corel — Becomes a Microsoft Vassal, Promotes XAML-based Desktop
Novell’s Work Popular… in Microsoft Blogs
●● October 2009
Microsoft Carries on Abusing Web Standards with Novell’s Help
●● September 2009
Microsoft Might Support Intel’s Moblin to Make GNU/Linux More Microsoft Dependent
Mono and Moblin as the Microsoft-approved “Open Source Solution”
Is Microsoft/Novell’s Moonlight Dead Now?
Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman
Novell’s Moonlight Becomes Less Relevant as Silverlight Gets Dumped Again
Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft
●● August 2009
More Monkey and MonkeyLight Business
Moonlight and Mono Lack Demand
Microsoft People Promote Microsoft Moonlight Again
●● July 2009
More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell ("A batch of small updates on the Mono/Moonlight situation")
More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell
Microsoft Exploits Feynman Lectures to Spread Lock-in, Does the Same in HPC
Confirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
Mono Applications Get Integrated with Microsoft Moonlight
Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight ‘Extend’ Phase
●● June 2009
Why Mono (and Moonlight) is Microsoft’s Embrace
Does Microsoft Moonlight Do to Firefox What Microsoft Does to Firefox?
●● May 2009
Licence to Use Microsoft Moonlight and Mono Not Possible?
If Flash is More Open Than Moonlight, Does That Make Microsoft Moonlight Proprietary?
GNU/Linux Bashers and Microsoft MVPs Masquerade as “Linux Users” ("A lot of Mono and Moonlight coverage is still coming from the Microsoft-faithful crowd")
GNU/Linux Bashers and Microsoft MVPs Masquerade as “Linux Users”
Microsoft Moonlight in the News
Don’t Let Novell (and Microsoft) Control GNU/Linux, Licences, and Open Office ("Dangers of Moonlight seen in a different light (but same angle); OpenOffice.org needs to be kept away from Novell")
Don’t Let Novell (and Microsoft) Control GNU/Linux, Licences, and Open Office
Microsoft Moonlight Reaches New Milestone So Microsoft Crowd Rejoices
●● April 2009
Official Novell/Microsoft Web Site (MoreInterop) Calls Moonlight “Microsoft Moonlight”
Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
Microsoft, Novell and Xenocode (Former Microsoft Employees) Join Forces and Spread Silverlight
The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited
●● March 2009
Kodak Groks Mono After Large Investment from Bill Gates, Novell Props up Silverlight
Novell Becomes Closer to Microsoft — Abolish Mono and Moonlight
●● February 2009
New Examples of ‘Slackreporting’
Don’t Get Mooned by Microsoft/Novell Moonlight
Moonlight 1.0 is NOT News, So Why All the Hype and Press Coverage?
Microsoft Silver Lie Locks GNU/Linux Users Out of Italian Public TV, South African Government
Why Moonlight is Not Free, and How Microsoft “Addicts” People
●● January 2009
Guest Post: Adventures in Novell’s Moonlight
●● December 2008
OpenSUSE: Still Trying to Be Microsoft Windows ("The Mono effort has also led to a Novell effort called Moonlight which is an attempt to enable Microsoft’s Silverlight media framework on Linux.")
OpenSUSE: Still Trying to Be Microsoft Windows
Novell/Microsoft Deceive About Moonlight, Generate Hype
●● November 2008
There is No “Silverlight for Linux”
Novell’s Moonlight Finds Fans: Microsoft Bloggers
On Novell and Microsoft Office Web Applications (Silver Lie)
Novell Helps Microsoft’s Fight Against Ajax, Web Standards, SVG
IBM Vice President: Requires Silverlight? No Thanks.
●● October 2008
Silver Lie is Still an Open-Source Lie
Microsoft Makes New Friends in Open Source World — for Windows, .NET, Silverlight
The Nomo GNU/Linux Distribution and Another Silver Lie
Media Reality Check: Microsoft Silverlight a Big Programming Scam
●● September 2008
Ryanair is Closing the Web with Microsoft Silverlight
●● August 2008
Novell May Promote Silverlight Because It Spreads Mono
Stand Up Against Silverlight, Microsoft’s Anti-competitive Weapon
●● June 2008
GNU/Linux Users Locked Out of Olympics, Need Silverlight 2.0
●● May 2008
Novell’s Moonlight: Crippled and Defective by Design™
Moonlight: Patent Bait Inside Your GNU/Linux Distribution
Microsoft: World’s Open Source Heroes Are… Silverfish
Why You Should Reject Novell’s Moonlight
Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight (sic)
●● April 2008
Microsoft and Its Media Partner Lock #1 Competitor Out of the Olympics
Novell Promotes an OOXML Web Equivalent on Behalf of Microsoft
Patent Bomb in a Ribbon-Cladded Box Available for Download from Novell
●● March 2008
Why Novell Teamed Up with Microsoft for a Web Hijack
Novell&Miguel Brings [sic Microsoft Downstream to Our GNU/Linux]
XAML/Silverlight and the Microsoft Software Patent Play
Plan B: Acquire to Extinguish Life’s Greatest Projects
Microsoft Pretends to Obey Web Standards While Novell+Microsoft Phase Web Standards Out
Will Nokia’s Linux-based Internet Tablets Soon Be Infected by Mono, XAML? What About Qt?
Nokia and Finland: A Mystery Behind OOXML and Silverlight
●● February 2008
eWeek: “Salesforce Says No to Silverlight”
Microsoft Redefines “Cross-platform”: Mac + Win32
Miguel de Icaza’s Talk Now Available As Microsoft Silverlight (or Microsoft WMV)
Silverlight and Mono = DRM and Software Patents
●● January 2008
Watch Out. Moonlight/Silverlight Knock on Your Door. All Your Media Mustn’t Belongs to Microsoft.
Microsoft and Novell Pull Another Netscape Using Silverlight, OOXML
Moonlight is Not Silverlight, Silverlight is Not Flash
Microsoft Gives GNU/Linux the Finger on Valentine’s, Using Silverlight
Mozilla Firefox Meets Silverlight and Novell’s Impact on This Web Hijack
Microsoft’s Latest: Want Olympics on Linux? Get Mono (and Pay ‘Patent Tax’)
Silverlight’s Linux Exclusion: Thy Name is Popfly (and More to Come) (Updated)
●● December 2007
Does Internet Explorer 8 Have a Web Hijack Plan in Store? If So, Does Novell Help It?
Moonlight Patents, Fees, and Microsoft Incentives
Quick Mention: Microsoft’s Popfly Excludes GNU/Linux Users, Just Like Silverlight
●● November 2007
Europe Takes a Look at Microsoft’s .NET (/Mono) Web Hijack Attempts
Early Signs of Danger: Microsoft Already Fighting to Steal the Web
●● October 2007
More on Microsoft’s Plan to Acquire (Extinguish) the Open Source Threat
Silverlight (and Moonlight/Mono, by Association) Becomes Part of the Antitrust Debate
The Mono and Moonlight Roadblock
●● September 2007
Moonlight a Second-class Citizen in a WindowSilverLight Wide Web
And There You Have It: You Need Novell (Not Just .NET) to Run Moonlight
Novell is Still a Pawn in Microsoft’s Web Hijack Plan
●● June 2007
Moonlight (.NET) on Linux Became a Microsoft ‘Pet Project’
Novell Helps Microsoft Build Its World Wide Web Fortress of Lockin
Pay-to-play for Windows Clone Products
Novell Helps Microsoft Hijack the World Wide Web
●● May 2007
Microsoft’s Silverlight for GNU/Linux? Only If You Accept Mono. (Updated)
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