On 22 June 2012 12:42, scoundrel50a <scoundrel...@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. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
