Comments on: Where are all the clean room clients? http://justincc.org/blog/2008/06/20/where-are-all-the-clean-room-clients/ Justin Clark-Casey's personal website Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: News Of the Worlds : The Metaverse Journal - Australia’s Virtual World News Service http://justincc.org/blog/2008/06/20/where-are-all-the-clean-room-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-41 News Of the Worlds : The Metaverse Journal - Australia’s Virtual World News Service Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:10:27 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-41 [...] justincc wonders: why are there so many Second Life clients based on the original Linden Lab code? Where are all the clients built without it? [...] [...] justincc wonders: why are there so many Second Life clients based on the original Linden Lab code? Where are all the clients built without it? [...]

]]> By: justincc http://justincc.org/blog/2008/06/20/where-are-all-the-clean-room-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-40 justincc Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:50:33 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-40 Firstly, just to make things clear, I speak only for myself. Other OpenSim developers may or may not have the same opinions. Secondly, I have the greatest respect for Linden Labs. Other companies have produced virtual world platforms, but they're the only major company that have had the vision to open source their client and advocate open standards. Indeed, Linden Labs and OpenSim have a pretty good relationship - we know that they've played around with OpenSim and are actively devoting resources to OpenSim/Linden interoperability. An alternative implementation of the Second Life servers strengthens the validity and vitality of the virtual world specifications they are developing. In the same way, I think that a completely independent viewer implementation would push along the development and documentation of the client - server side of the Second Life protocol. Far from being of detriment to Linden Labs, such independent viewers would improve and further entrench the Second Life ecosystem. Firstly, just to make things clear, I speak only for myself. Other OpenSim developers may or may not have the same opinions.

Secondly, I have the greatest respect for Linden Labs. Other companies have produced virtual world platforms, but they’re the only major company that have had the vision to open source their client and advocate open standards. Indeed, Linden Labs and OpenSim have a pretty good relationship - we know that they’ve played around with OpenSim and are actively devoting resources to OpenSim/Linden interoperability. An alternative implementation of the Second Life servers strengthens the validity and vitality of the virtual world specifications they are developing.

In the same way, I think that a completely independent viewer implementation would push along the development and documentation of the client - server side of the Second Life protocol. Far from being of detriment to Linden Labs, such independent viewers would improve and further entrench the Second Life ecosystem.

]]> By: anonymous http://justincc.org/blog/2008/06/20/where-are-all-the-clean-room-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-39 anonymous Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:54:07 +0000 http://justincc.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-39 Maybe its some kind of fairness? SL has done all the design and now opensim wants to have it all without paying back. First they forbid their programmers to contribute back to the viewer, now they want effort spend in a clone instead of improving the open original. Not nice. Maybe its some kind of fairness?
SL has done all the design and now opensim wants to have it all without paying back. First they forbid their programmers to contribute back to the viewer, now they want effort spend in a clone instead of improving the open original. Not nice.

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