Debian Today

SilverLight from Microsoft is a pretty nice thing to have. I’ve only played with it a little bit but was really impressed by it’s abilities. I assumed that having SilverLight on Linux was something that would never happen. I assumed wrong. Moonlight is an open source version of  SilverLight that works on Linux and is [...]

By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco
Microsoft is promising not to pursue patent claims against Linux and open-source software using the open-source implementation of .NET, Project Mono.
The company has said that third party implementations of its C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) – a language runtime – will be made available under its Community Promise. [...]