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Musicteacher Rampal
Registered User
Join date: 20 Feb 2004
Posts: 824
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01-08-2007 11:59
What does this mean for the common player? Will we eventually be paying someone else for land/lindens, etc? Will the community as we know it cease to exist and be broken up into several different "worlds" run by individuals?
Could we please get a better picture of what this will mean for the players who have no idea what open source means and who have no plans of utilizing this "feature"?
Thanks!
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Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
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01-08-2007 12:19
Second Life is a system of many parts. These can be broken up in to three basic pieces:
- The viewer. This is what you download and install to be able to log in and view the world.
- The regions / sims. This is the servers and code that actually simulates the world.
- The central services. These are things like your account, linden balance, uploaded textures, your inventory etc.
Only one of these has been made open source, and that is the viewer. It would take significant reverse engineering and hardware to replicate our simulators / regions and our central services. So it is probably unlikely that we will see seperate grids, worlds, L$s etc very soon if at all.
With an open source viewer it is possible we will see alternate viewers with changes to how the world is viewed in the forms of better translation support, skinnable viewers or even viewers available on different platforms. Or a hundred other things I'm not thinking of right now. However they will all probably still connect to the same Second Life world the standard viewers do. And we will continue to develop and support the standard viewer.
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