Actually, Windows server isn't that expensive. Look up the SPLA pricing on things, reduces the cost down to about $10/mo, which isn't bad at all compared to the other fees you pay for hosting. ;)
Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: margaret.le...@gmail.com [mailto:margaret.le...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Maggie Leber (sl: Maggie Darwin) > Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010 6:35 AM > To: Frisby, Adam > Cc: Argent Stonecutter; Morgaine; opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com > Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Client-side scripting in Snowglobe > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Frisby, Adam <a...@deepthink.com.au> > wrote: > > > From what I understand, Mono ended up implementing a lot of that for > Silverlight; although I do not know how the security holds up compared > to the official .NET runtime; but AppDomains + CAS is a pretty rock > solid sandbox on Windows. > > Last I heard, Babbage was trying to recruit volunteer labor to build a > bytecode verifier so the server-side could be safely scripted in C#. > > I think we all can agree that a Windows-only viewer is unacceptable. > And that's a fundamental weakness of embracing MSFT tech. Imagine if > LL had to run the grid on licensed Windows servers to get acceptable > performance...not that they're getting it now, and the Mono LSL > implementation is a big part of that problem. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
