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SecondLife Goes Open Source

January 8, 2007 |

Lindenlabs announced that the SecondLabs client has been open sourced.

Good decision in my book, but the user community seems a bit wary. A lot of the commenters seem to assume that the security of SecondLife is going to go backwards. Anybody used to thinking in open source terms knows that is not true, but for a lot of SecondLife users, security through openness is a paradox. And then, of course, are those who don’t know what open source software is to begin with…

Gala Alva Says:

January 8th, 2007 at 5:55 AM PST

I am totally confused. What is this OPEN SOURCE? Do we all have to download ‘IT’? Do we need it to play SL? Do we need it, if we have land? I have no freaking clue what ya talking about, lol. What does this GNU exactly do, why do we need it?

Can someone enlighten me please, because I am beyond confused now :/

If you need to know, look it up on Wikipedia.

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  1. Taran Rampersad on January 9, 2007 12:44 am

    Well, I look at it this way - if people don’t like Linux, they are surprised to find out that they probably use it everyday.

    Google.

    To the average person, the open sourcing of SecondLife is probably not that big of a deal - yet. We’ll see in 6 months if anything significant comes of it. It is cool, but results are more important than cool. :-)

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