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Feb 11 2008   7:41PM GMT

Overheard: Linux developers dancing in the Moonlight



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Linux, Technology, Silverlight, open source desktop, Moonlight
miguel_de_icaza.png We are formalizing a collaboration between Microsoft and Novell with the explicit purpose of bringing Silverlight to Linux and do this in a fully supported way.

This is an historical collaboration between an open source project and Microsoft. They have collaborated with other folks on the server space (Xen and PHP) but this is their first direct contribution to the open source desktop.

Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft/Novell Collaboration on Silverlight.