Figuring out what's in Silverlight 3.0

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http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/07/15/riaweekly054/

[rbanffy]

I am trying to figure out why would I care...

(burn, karma, burn)

[scotth]

This is nothing more than an advertisement.

[scotth → scotth]

Furthermore, the thought of spending $1000 USD on VS.NET 2008 Pro and Expression Suite and being locked into using IIS for "smooth streaming" is appalling, considering that mostly equivalent applications can be built entirely using an free and open-source toolchain. I guess you need some proprietary runtime for video, but hopefully that will be cleared up at some point.