Quote Originally Posted by 'algol',index.php?page=Thread&postID=148241#post14 8241
I guess the other main thing I have against Silverlight is that it is Microsoft releasing it, and that they inherently are motivated against making it cross-platform, which the web implicitly is.
Well, the most I can tell you is that I have to jump through a MILLION hoops just to LOOK at anything close to source code for something that isn't Microsoft's -- for fear that it somehow inspires some future code of mine and gets MS into some sort of copyright legal battle. If those sort of hoops apply to things like Mac/Linux teams then I can only imagine how hard it is to develop for those platforms.

MS does make products for other platforms, but (like anything) it's always cost vs gain. For (example) Mac developers, even with a high cost to port a product to Windows results in a high gain (high userbase). For Windows developers, porting a Windows product to Mac is the same high cost, with less of a gain.