Originally Posted by
jerome1232
Microsoft chose not to provide the tools for Linux, that is the point. Truly Microsoft is the one to give the stink eye. If they'd license the drm portion of silverlight and assist with integrating it into moonlight (they are already cooperating with the development of moonlight) Then we wouldn't have this problem.
I doubt the content providers influenced Netflix, I'm pretty sure they [Netflix] were interested in not having the content pirated in and of themselves, Netflix wants you to subscribe and stay that way, not subscribe for a month so you can pirate all their content and cancel.
Just as Microsoft chooses to not provide any support for open sourced file-systems, just as they choose to provide lackluster support for open sourced document formats, etc...