After a lull, the competition between the major players in the
browser / web client space is heating up again. Now that
Microsoft has ramped up their PR campaign on Silverlight
(formerly WPF/E), and Adobe is doing the same with their
Apollo, a lot of people are talking about what it all means,
both in terms of the technical merits of the platforms and the
effect of proprietary lock-in on freedom. One particularly
skeptical take on the latter is Mark Pilgrim's Silly
season post, which has been making the rounds of
the tech blogs