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by gameshot911 5274 days ago
What do you mean Silverlight and Flash are nonfree? As an end-consumer I've never paid for either of them.
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tikhonj 5274 days ago
He probably means "proprietary". Also, I think Silverlight is particularly annoying if you're not on Windows.

And Flash, of course, is annoying when it does work :)

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kbutler 5274 days ago
If you're running Silverlight, unless you pirated Windows, you've paid for it.
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philwelch 5274 days ago
Really? I had to download it for my Mac, and if Microsoft is somehow getting Apple to pay them off, they're getting a shitty deal because I still had to download it.
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