Moonlight

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
 * Moonlight is Dead

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

 * Journey With Novell/Microsoft Moonlight (and How it Broke Firefox While Microsoft Keeps Breaking Antitrust Law)

March 2010

 * Novell Wants to Bring Microsoft, Moonlight, and Mono to Linux Phones (Android)
 * Moonlight Disappoints

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)
 * 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")

January 2010

 * New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”
 * Bug #1 is Not “Market Share”
 * 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.”
 * Neon Challenges IBM’s GNU/Linux Mainframes, EU Challenges IE Bundling, and Microsoft Helps Push Mono and Moonlight Into GNU/Linux
 * 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.")
 * Salivating Over Silverlight ("If Novell’s vice president is “droolingly” Microsoft’s, then how can Mono and Novell be trusted anymore?")
 * Novell Promotes Silverlight
 * 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 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
 * Novell Fails with Moonlight
 * Microsoft People Promote Microsoft Moonlight Again

July 2009

 * More on Mono, Microsoft, and Novell ("A batch of small updates on the Mono/Moonlight situation")
 * 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")
 * 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")
 * 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.")
 * Novell/Microsoft Deceive About Moonlight, Generate Hype

November 2008

 * There is No “Silverlight for Linux”
 * Silver Lie and Silver Liars
 * 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
 * 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
 * Fedora Forbids Moonlight

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
 * Drinks Under the Moonlight
 * 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)