I don't get all the hate. I, for one, have been WAITING for Silverlight to kick Adobe in the pants. Microsoft is at least willing to treat us like first class citizens. Read Miguel's blog. MS is giving Novel access to a lot of stuff in order to create an unencumbered feature parity .NET environment (mono), part of which is a completely free Silverlight implementation (Moonlight).

Even if you don't want software that was inspired by MS on your tablet you should at least be smart enough to realize that competition drives innovation. The introduction of a viable flash competitor should motivate Adobe to get off its bum and improve flash.

This is a win-win.

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