__/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:00 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Linden Lab To Open-Source Second Life Servers
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>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Linden Lab plans to open up the source code for Second Life's servers,
>> | allowing anyone to run their own version of Second Life, a company
>> | spokesman said today, confirming the widespread belief among many
>> | in the 3D community that open-sourcing the servers was inevitable.
>> `----
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/04/linden_lab_to_o.html
>
> Nice move.
>
> I've yet to experience this phenomenon personally, but from various
> GooTube videos I've seen, it looks intriguing.
Now you can set up some world in your own home, or neighbourhood, or city...
will be scalable as well. The MySQL/Debian backside in Linden Lab is already
feeling the pressure and they separate the datacentres to handle different
islands, IIRC.
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