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Re:The Year Of The Linux... Everything Else by loup-vaillant on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @12:01PM (#1475263)
> - flash performance/silverlight support

Wait a minute: this useless, proprietary, redundant piece of DRM-Patent-ridden crap is actually catching on? Why? Are some of my qualifiers wrong, or Microsoft's sales power is that strong?

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Re:The Year Of The Linux... Everything Else by jolan on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @12:20PM (#1475324)
Silverlight is big in the US because Netflix uses it for video streaming.
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Re:The Year Of The Linux... Everything Else by Locke1689 on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @03:31PM (#1475900)
Silverlight is proprietary and does have support for DRM, I'll give you that. However, it is technically quite impressive.
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Re:The Year Of The Linux... Everything Else by loup-vaillant on Thursday July 01, 2010 @03:06AM (#1477353)
OK, thanks. Do you have a pointer to its specific advantages? I'd like to know a bit more about that.
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