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		loup-vaillant on June 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Year Of The Linux... Everything Else > - flash performance/silverlight support Wait a minute: this useless, proprietary, redundant piece of DRM-Patent-ridden crap is actually catching on? Why? Are some of my qualifiers wrong, or Microsoft's sales power is that strong?

jolan on June 30, 2010 | [–]

Silverlight is big in the US because Netflix uses it for video streaming.

Locke1689 on June 30, 2010 | [–]

Silverlight is proprietary and does have support for DRM, I'll give you that. However, it is technically quite impressive.

loup-vaillant on July 1, 2010 | [–]

OK, thanks. Do you have a pointer to its specific advantages? I'd like to know a bit more about that.

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