At an event to promote Microsoft Corp. technologies in general, and the Silverlight cross-platform interface runtime in particular, Microsoft France asked Miguel de Icaza, head of the Mono project at Novell Inc. to demonstrate Silverlight running on Linux, using Mono's open-source implementation of Microsoft's.Net technology.

Microsoft has said it has no intention of porting Silverlight to Linux itself, considering it sufficient to distribute it on Windows and Mac OS X.

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