[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu in india

[Liam Proven]

On 22 June 2012 12:42, scoundrel50a <scoundrel50a at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As well as that I hear support for Silverlight is being dropped in Linux,
> which I dont understand, as a lot of people are streaming films and things
> now on their computers. I know Love Film only works if you have Silverlight,
> and wont work in Ubuntu, I havent tried Netflix.....if both those dont work,
> then that is another thing that goes against having an Ubuntu only
> laptop.....

Silverlight has not been dropped from Linux. Silverlight /never/ ran on Linux.

There was, for a while, Novell Moonlight, based on the Mono FOSS
re-implementation of .NET. However, Moonlight was only able to emulate
a back-level revision of Silverlight - v2, I think - and did not work
on all sites.

Moonlight is no longer in development, sadly.

But Silverlight is a closed-source, proprietary tech that never worked
on anything except Windows and Mac OS X. Any company that adopts such
a proprietary tool is being foolish and should be told so by as many
customers as possible.


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