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Moonlight

Moonlight is a free software package, developed with assistance from Microsoft.

What is it?

Moonlight is primarily a web-browser plugin which provides animation and interactivity features which can be used to develop web applications.

What reassurances has Microsoft offered?

In 2007, Microsoft published a "Covenant to Downstream Recipients of Moonlight".[1] A new promise was published in December 2009,[2] but it was criticised as being no improvement on the previous promise. The new promise also specifically excludes distributors from any patent protection.[3]

Avoiding Moonlight

Many features of HTML 5.0 have been designed to provide functionality which is offered by Moonlight. Here's some good info on HTML5.

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