optimism (Score 1)

I think I look at this more optimistically than other people. Sure Microsoft offering a media package so moonlight can play proprietary codecs... is not a bad thing. Because not only will it then be able to play them but it will also be able to play open codecs. Which IMO is more free than flash which won't just play any codec. The only ways then microsoft could hurt moonlight is by not offering codecs once silverlight became mainstream... but then moonlight could simply use open codecs. couldn't it just be that microsoft , like adobe... is just trying to create this to sell the tools around it? By building the best tools?