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I'm still sad that Silverlight[0] (and Moonlight) died because people hated MS so viscerally back then.

It was actually really good for the time and lightyears ahead of whatever Flash was doing.

But people rather used all kinds of hacks to get Flash working on Linux and OSX rather than use Moonlight.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight

I was so glad it died. It was a weird proprietary replacement for Flash, which itself was weird and proprietary, except the new one was owned by a huge company that publicly stated they wanted to crush Linux and friends.

A big chunk of their strategy at the time was around how to completely own the web. I celebrated every time their attempts failed.

As someone who developed in it at the time I found the reason it died was because they made new, slightly incompatible, versions every new Windows release.

After a while people got tired of doing updates.

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