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Piggie Paule
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Join date: 22 Jul 2008
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09-18-2008 11:32
I'm guessing no of course.
But you can't run anything on YOUR hardware (perhaps another PC on your home network) that allows you to have a (as it were) SL world(sim) running at home on your hardware?
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Tegg Bode
FrootLoop Roo Overlord
Join date: 12 Jan 2007
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09-18-2008 12:05
You can run standalone unconnected sims using OpenSim, but currently can't take stuff back and forth unless you use Second Inventory, but then it's only full perm items.
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
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09-18-2008 13:23
There are several reverse-engineered SL-like servers out there, that will let you run a stand-alone environment that is sort of like SL, but that doesn't work as well. Most (all, as fas as I know) do not yet have scripting or asset servers or avatar attachments that work properly or completely. You can not, at this time, connect these to the real SL grid. Nor are you likely to be able to collect a stand-alone server to the real SL grid at any time in the near future.
Some of the SL clones out there will let you connect to a grid of similar non-SL servers, or to rent server space on their independant grid. But again, these grids can not connect to the SL Grid.
Before we will see stand-alone servers and independant grids actually connecting to the SL grid, there are a LOT of technical and legal issues that have to be worked out. Such as how to control access to purchased content. For example, any content that you purchased on the SL grid that is not a full-perms freebie is most likely NOT licensed for export to any grid other then the Linden Lab grid it was sold on. If you took a no-copy or no-transfer item from the SL grid to an external grid, and it could be uploaded to their asset servers or simulators, it would be almost impossible to prevent an unethical individual operating such an asset server (or simulator) from using that data to crack the permissions and make unlimited free copies of that content.
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Piggie Paule
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Join date: 22 Jul 2008
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09-18-2008 15:33
Thanks for the replies. Seems there is some work being done by some here then. I just was wondering what the situation was as it would of course be great if you could go shopping in SL to buy content, and then come back to your private place (land) which was actually running on a machine on your network. I guess though that would spoil the whole point of SL in that was are all together in 1 world and if everyone had their own little private worlds then that would ruin the whole concept. But, thanks for the info anyway  |