On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Lance Corrimal <lance.corri...@eregion.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 14. April 2010 20:49:59 schrieb Joe Linden: > >> **we've had a lot of internal debate around cost/benefit of OS **... and >> we're fully committed to redoubling our commitment to make this a >> successful program*." > > > then... how about... opensourcing the SERVER (like someone pretty high up > suggested several years ago)? > > > and there's no reason to be afraid that giving away the other half of the > software would cause you longtime harm anyways... > > ...after all, the grid is more than server & client. the grid also is all > those boxes that it is running on... no way that a competitior could pull > 10000 PCs out of a hat on short notice. > > on the other hand, I would like to bet actual money on the following > predictions: > > - 48 hours after the server code is out in the open, the 25 groups limit has > been lifted, AND the whole IM/group chat subsystem has been migrated to XMPP > (including voice via XMPP); another day and there's the possibility to connect > to jabber.sl.net with any xmpp client, AND talk to friends at any jabber > service.
XMPP doesn't actually scale that well, unfortunately; a lot of the really big installs actually run their own protocol internally with better scaling. > - a few weeks later, all communications between client and server, and the > various server subsystems, has been ported to tcp/ssl and is transaction safe. Unlikely. Transactions are hard. There's some low-hanging fruit with regards to LSL support though. In theory, one should be able to statically verify nearly all traditional non-Mono LSL scripts, and then optionally compile them down to native code. (The static verification would probably take a day or two to code; compilation down to native code would take longer and have more interesting tradeoffs. Direct threading might be a better approach.) _______________________________________________ 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
