My main concern is that a Novell/Microsoft web site is actually calling Moonlight “Microsoft Moonlight”. To be fair, I only have Roy Schestowitz’s word for that. I can’t actually find this so-called statement anywhere on the moreinterop.com web site. Their Moonlight page gives me a runtime error. The rest of Roy’s post looks like typical FUD.
But if it really is being called “Microsoft Moonlight”, this bothers me greatly. I swore off any and all Microsoft products years ago. I refuse to buy or use anything that provides Microsoft with any revenue or exposure. This includes peripherals, software, XBox’es and Fords with that Microsoft Sync option.
I’ve been a SUSE user for 10 years. The patent covenant didn’t phase me, I didn’t see it as any kind of “threat”. I don’t mind that Mono is a .net replacement, as long as it was produced as true open source and didn’t have the Microsoft name attached to it. I don’t mind that Moonlight is a Silverlight replacement, for the same reasons. But if my openSUSE distribution has something called “Microsoft Moonlight” in it, I’ll either rip it out altogether or finally start considering another distribution.
10 years ago, I moved to Linux to get away from Microsoft products. If their name starts creeping back into my computer, I’ll just have to move farther away.
But again, I have no proof that they’re really calling it “Microsoft Moonlight”. The page does not load for me.