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During both the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and President Obama's inauguration, many Linux users were seriously miffed that Microsoft's Silverlight rich application plug-in was required for viewing. Today, the Mono Project, one of Novell's open source initiatives, has announced the availability of the Moonlight 1.0 Firefox extension, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux and Unix platforms. According to Novell: "Moonlight provides the platform Linux users need to use Silverlight and Windows Media content. In combination with Banshee, a Novell-sponsored project to produce an open source media player, Moonlight is part of a complete multimedia solution on Linux." Some questions are being raised about Moonlight's license, though.