http://simonwillison.net/2008-01-04T12:41:32+00:00Simon Willison2008-01-04T12:41:32+00:002008-01-04T12:41:32+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/4/well/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2008/01/the_dark_side_o.html">The Dark Side Of The Moon</a></strong></p> Robert O’Callahan believes that Moonlight is a strategic mistake, because it gives credibility to Microsoft’s entry to a new market which they will use to “keep the competition on a treadmill”; Moonlight can also never be entirely free due to the need for a proprietary codec (VC-1) available only as a binary blob. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Jan-04.html">Miguel de Icaza</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/binaryblob">binaryblob</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/codecs">codecs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/miguel-de-icaza">miguel-de-icaza</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/moonlight">moonlight</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/roberto-callahan">roberto-callahan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/silverlight">silverlight</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wc1">wc1</a></p>