Companies building Web sites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.
Adobe Systems has said it's helping to sponsor the SQLite database project.
The Mozilla group expects to run a thank-you ad in The New York Times by Christmas as new market share numbers showed continued progress against Microsoft.
The Novell-led Mono project this week made the first, though incomplete, public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, a browser plug-in that competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Shockwave, JavaFX, and Apple QuickTime.
Microsoft agreed to pay Norway's Opera Software US$12.75 million to head off a threatened lawsuit over code that made some Web pages on MSN look bad in certain versions of Opera's Web browser, CNET News.com has learned.
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