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It seems like even Moonlight users (with a licence fee) may have no access to the international games

Fedora considers Moonlight to be too much of a risk to Fedora

There are some hurdles to jump if you wish to make use of Novell's so-called Silverlight support (Microsoft's excuse, bogus cross platform)

An analysis with a top lawyer suggests that Moonlight is to be avoided

I noticed a comment thread on Groklaw about Moonlight, with a link to the license terms on Microsoft's website. They call it Covenant to Downstream Recipients of Moonlight - Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration . A comment by Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb on Dana Blankenhorn's article about Novell being a lead pony for Silverlight started the discussion originally. read more

Moonlight’s cold reception was mentioned briefly just a couple of days ago, but let’s emphasise again why GNU/Linux users must not accept it; instead, they need to complaint or protest against Webmasters that adopt such ActiveX-like embrace & extend strategies. Don’t let Microsoft journalists lie to developers by saying that there is “Silverlight for Linux” because there isn’t. read more