Inauguration on Silverlight: Some Linux Fans Upset

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 20, 2009 3:05 PM EDT
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Those up top (the Presidential Inaugural Committee) chose to utilize Microsoft's Silverlight technology to stream the upcoming inaugural events for the new president of the United States. Though Microsoft certainly likes this idea, this leaves out thousands of people in the US and elsewhere who still cannot run Silverlight or an open source alternative on their systems from viewing the streamed video online.

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