On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Lance Corrimal <lance.corri...@eregion.de> wrote: > Am 14.03.2010 20:37, schrieb Soft Linden: >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Lance Corrimal >> <lance.corri...@eregion.de> wrote: >> >>> Am 14.03.2010 18:56, schrieb New Hax: >>> >>>> Lindens should be staying with their promises >>>> >>> related question, where's the svn repo to check out the server code? >>> >> How is that in any way related? >> >> We're closer on some of the tech, but don't yet operate with a >> business model where giving away the hosting business would make >> sense. Nobody promised otherwise. >> > I might be totally wrong but I remember phil saying that the server code > would be open sourced as well, back when snowglobe started...
It's a goal. In the long run, there will be many virtual world services and it's in our best interest that they're SL-compatible. So we've got a strong incentive, and we're doing a lot of work toward that end. But it's nothing we've said we're releasing immediately. There are still a lot of unsolved problems in the way. We'd need to provide a way to move off of Havok while still remaining stable with insane physics content, deal with a lot of licensing issues, rework the server protocol to deal with untrusted peers and survive wider version differences, find a way to preserve the economy and creator rights, on and on. Even open sourcing the viewer was a huge time and resource investment, done with the calculation that the time invested would eventually pay off. If you look at things like the enterprise product and its related content licensing work, or the interop work that's in Snowglobe today, you can see some of the necessary bits coming together. _______________________________________________ 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
