Coming Soon: NYTimes Reader On The Mac

Not for free, it will come at great cost: Forced to install Siverlight technology on their computer. Siverlight is Microsoft's latest attempt to subvert Web standards and it's sad to see the Olympics and The New York Times cooperating with this effort. Most folks won't have any idea just how subversive Silverlight will be until years from now, but its purpose is to a) Fight Adobe and Apple with their Flash and Quicktime technologies; and b) eventually subvert HTML itself so that you won't be able to access the Web unless you install Micrsosoft products. Bye-bye free and open Web.

Google Silverlight and you'll see what I mean.

When I saw the headline, I was excited! I'm a frequent Times reader - even though I live upstate, they have good coverage of state government news.

Then I saw that it uses Micros**t technology.

BUMMER!

I'll take a look, but I doubt I'll use it.