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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 28 May 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 I've got mixed feelings about this. On one hand, the proliferation of proprietary add-ons leads to Balkanisation. On the other, if the Silverlight code had actually been incorporated into Times Reader as distributed, few people would even have noticed. Do you ever read the fine print in an application that spells out which libraries etc were used to build it?Featured Whitepaper
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If nothing else, that would help stem the quasi-religious complaints about the acceptability of software from one company or another. But for now I suspect that if the NYT did produce a version of the Reader for Linux using Moonlight then the cries from GPL purists would be even more strident. |
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