February 2009
Announcing Moonshine, the project never formerly known as Pornilus | Aaron Bockover
Moonshine is a project based on Moonlight that leverages the built-in Windows Media capabilities of Silverlight to bring Windows Media playback to Linux in a fully legitimate way, without forcing the end user worry about what a codec is. This is possible because Microsoft provides the codecs directly to all Moonlight users, regardless of their choice of Linux distribution.
Not worse than Flash imho, but not better, gimme ogg/theora!