US Library of Congress paid to distribute media in new MS format

[LightB]

$3 million grant for the government site which will use Sliverlight, to be more exact (http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/what_3_million_buys_silverlight.html)

[RAV TUX]

$3 million grant for the government site which will use Sliverlight, to be more exact (http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/what_3_million_buys_silverlight.html)

I am good friends with the guy in charge of security of the Library of Congress computers, they only use Solaris.

I will send him an email or call him on his cell phone and see if that has changed but I doubt it.

[aimran]

I await with bated breath, rav.

[DeadSuperHero]

This is just terrible...
First off, why on earth would someone like the LOC, with hundreds of thousands of works accessable to the public, use technology to lock the public in?

[Papi-KB7VGW]

So just what is Silverlight? I know it is a Microsoft product but that is about all.:confused:

[macogw]

So just what is Silverlight? I know it is a Microsoft product but that is about all.:confused:

Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash. It's their rich-media thing. I'm pretty sure it's Windows-only, though there may be one for OSX. Some Linux users are trying to reverse engineer it into Moonlight.

EDIT: there is an OSX version. MS claims this makes it "cross-platform." Because, ya know, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, PCBSD, Solaris, and BeOS don't exist.

[CaptainCabinet]

So just what is Silverlight? I know it is a Microsoft product but that is about all.:confused:

I installed it when I had Windows but it didn't seem to do anything.