'Second Life' hits second million in eight weeks
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| It took the virtual world Second Life more than three years to
| finally hit one million registered accounts.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10797_3-6143909.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Yesterday(ish):
Sensory immersion
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| Second Life of course brings a new twist to the idea of immersion,
| though for now it?s immersion on the virtual side of the looking
| glass. What interests me are the ways in which there is cross-over
| between the virtual world and the real world.
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http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/72
FSF pledges $60,000 to the Free Ryzom Campaign
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| Free Software Foundation announces that it
| will officially support the Free Ryzom campaign (www.ryzom.org)with a
| pledge of $60,000.
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| The Free Ryzom campaign was established to purchase the online game and
| universe known as Ryzom, property of the now bankrupt Nevrax company,
| and release the entire game as free software.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/213947/
Context:
Why We Need an Open Source Second Life
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| Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, is very open-source friendly.
| Its computing infrastructure is based on thousands of servers running
| GNU/Linux, Apache, Squid and MySQL.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000133
There's also a Linux client for this. IBM is involved.
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