Now you mention it... Yes, a few people are making thousands of dollars per month and are having their RL day job in SL... so, now they would kill to protect that income, but...
Imho, SL would have have had better products if everything had been free and open (no permission system). Then one could learn from others and improve things, build upon the experience and work of others, and nobody would make money of it or have to be afraid that others would. The fact that scripts can't be copied is lucky for those that are making real money in SL, it is their only and last protection against losing their income. That brings me to the fact that LL is currently working in secret and without discussion on the implementation of client-side scripting, and from the tiny bit of information that leaked out, they are apparently trying hard to make also THOSE scripts hard to copy / inspect / improve upon. Why? Is anyone already making money with client-side scripting? No. So why try to make it impossible to copy it? Anti open source? Or maybe just trying to protect their OWN income by using the law (TPV) on one hand and obscurity (binary client-side script blobs) on the other hand to avoid that four years worth of assets flow to other grids. I'm sorry to think that LL would be happy if opensim grids would be bare lands that literally lag four or more years behind in content. That is why I have to wonder if LL's suddenly attempts to protect Intellectual Properties isn't actually driven by self preservation only. And I still want OPEN client-side script development. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 03:22:03PM -0700, Lawson English wrote: > So lets open up all scripting sources too. I mean no need for content > protection there, either, right? -- Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> _______________________________________________ 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
