Re: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight -- open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:24:26PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Description : open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight
> >
> > [...]
>
> Hi,
>
> The description is misleading. This is (AFAICT) not an implementation of a
> standard but a clone product, like wine, and much like wine it lags behind to
> the real one. Please make that clear in the description to avoid leading users
> (and specially web developers) to believe Silverlight is cross-platform. For
> example, the wine description reads:
>
> "This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work."
Moreover, the word "implementation of Silverlight" doesn't seem accurate
when referring to a product instead of a standard. You probably meant to
say this is a "clone of Silverlight".
--
Robert Millan
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