Mono shines Microsoft's Silverlight on Linux

 

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By Simon Aughton

Posted on 4 May 2007 at 10:08

The head of the Mono open source project has said that it will release a Linux version of Microsoft's new Silverlight Web plug-in before the end of the year.

Miguel de Icaza announced the planned port after Microsoft officials attending the MIX07 conference said that they would monitor demand before extending support beyond Windows and Mac OS X. It has prioritised a version for Windows Mobile over any possible Linux development.

Mono is a Novell-sponsored open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net platform and Silverlight is an extension of .Net that enables the delivery of multimedia content and applications over the Web.

Crucially for Mono, Microsoft said that it will release the dynamic language code for Silverlight under a licence that will permit modification and redistribution.