wine users - Sep 2007 - I think I figured out how to get wine to run the .net framework very well

I have recently heard about the silverlight project. The silverlight project is
a plugin released by Microsoft for Linux that allows the use of .Net based apps
on Linux. My only disagreement with using this plugin is the fact that Microsoft
has been accessing XP and Vista systems without permission and changing software
as stated by ZDnet. They call it Stealth Updating. Anyway that does not mean we
can't use this code. It's under the GPL so we should be able to take it
apart, analyze it, and put it back together in Wine so that if you install our
silverlight plugin in Firefox installed on wine you should be able to fool
Silverlight into thinking it's on Windows. We don't want windows updates
and we don't want genuine advantage or any information about us being sent
back to activate a product like Office 2007 so that means that we should take
steps to firewall Wine against silverlight information being sent to Microsoft
or any Microsoft information that is unnecessary. It
 may sound complicated but I think it's the best thing to do. Let me know
what you think.
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As far as I know silverlight is not available for linux, there is
however the moonlight project by mono developers which aims to be a
silverlight replacement for linux. So I don't think wine is needed for
linux compatability...

On 9/15/07, Pomeroy Lab <admin at mindblowingidea.com>
wrote:
> I have recently heard about the silverlight project. The silverlight
project
> is a plugin released by Microsoft for Linux that allows the use of .Net
> based apps on Linux. My only disagreement with using this plugin is the
fact
> that Microsoft has been accessing XP and Vista systems without permission
> and changing software as stated by ZDnet. They call it Stealth Updating.
> Anyway that does not mean we can't use this code. It's under the
GPL so we
> should be able to take it apart, analyze it, and put it back together in
> Wine so that if you install our silverlight plugin in Firefox installed on
> wine you should be able to fool Silverlight into thinking it's on
Windows.
> We don't want windows updates and we don't want genuine advantage
or any
> information about us being sent back to activate a product like Office 2007
> so that means that we should take steps to firewall Wine against
silverlight
> information being sent to Microsoft or any Microsoft information that is
> unnecessary. It may sound complicated but I think it's the best thing
to do.
> Let me know what you think.
>
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Erik de Jong