Imagine a world where rich interactive web experiences are available across platforms with ease of development - and guess what.... it will even work in IE and Firefox! A world where 'web 2.0' means a lock down in to proprietary technologies and where 'cross platform' means M$ and Apple only. A world where developers too inept and lazy to learn the latest javascript effects libs and AJAX technologies instead turn their efforts to Microsoft.
Welcome to the world of Silverlight, Microsoft's latest web monopoly strategy.
In 1991 the internet was invented with 1 major idea - that the web would be accessible by any machine, any browser, any person through an open and royalty free system. The user should not be bound by the technology. 'That is the most important property of it - its universality' [Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet]
Silverlight is the absolute antithesis of this sentiment. I am warning people now - do not develop software for this framework! Every web page that features silverlight is directly undermining the principles that the web was founded on.
Silverlight websites will not work with Linux. This is directly contributing to the current M$ monopoly.
The world wide web should never be owned and its content should be accessible by anyone on any machine with any operating system.
I also recommend people to read the following article.
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1418.html
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
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