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2008

The Dark Side Of The Moon (via) Robert O’Callahan believes that Moonlight is a strategic mistake, because it gives credibility to Microsoft’s entry to a new market which they will use to “keep the competition on a treadmill”; Moonlight can also never be entirely free due to the need for a proprietary codec (VC-1) available only as a binary blob.

# 4th January 2008, 12:41 pm / moonlight, roberto-callahan, migueldeicaza, silverlight, microsoft, open-source, wc1, codecs, video, binaryblob