02.25.08
Miguel de Icaza’s Talk Now Available As Microsoft Silverlight (or Microsoft WMV)
Find out (if you can) how Miguel helps Silverlight adoption
From Miguel’s blog:
They require Silverlight 1.0, but Moonlight compiled from source with ffmpeg support is able to play those presentations back.
If you are in a rush, see the following post for details on downloading the WMV file (so you do not need to install Moonlight from source on Linux).
WMV. Isn’t that something which requires Novell’s ‘protection’ or licensing? The whole thing is becoming ever more ridiculous. █
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
Victor Soliz said,
February 25, 2008 at 11:16 am
Quite ridiculous, when is the Icaza circus going to end? Why on earth wouldn’t an open source developer release videos in downloadable ogg? This guy needs some self respect.
Miles said,
February 25, 2008 at 11:44 am
In all fairness, Victor, Miguel did not make those videos. Those videos were made by the conference and posted to the conference’s website. He had no control over the format of the videos - you would have realised that had you actually read the article instead of making assumptions
Roy Schestowitz said,
February 25, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Eben Moglen attends similar conferences that he does not control and they make the videos available as Ogg Theora.