Many developers have been eagerly awaiting Linden Lab to make good on their stated intention to release the Second Life server code to the Open Source community for some time now. According to Ginsu Yoon, Linden Lab's VP business affairs however, the virtual world building company are "in the speculative stages" of the process as of yet. He also conceeds that "it sometimes takes us quite a while to deliver on our ambitions" in an interview with Ugotrade.
The client code, the software used to access Second Life has been open source for some months, and already ambitious projects using the freely modifiable code have sprung up. There's even a project to reverse engineer the Linden Server architecture called Open Grid.
The general feeling was that we may see the code go Open Source this year, but in light of Ginsu Yoons statements, that now seems unlikely.
Somebody should compile a list of all the comments made about open sourcing SL. I'm thinking it'd look something like:
- Later
- Soon
- Later
- Soon
- Later
...
No surprise here. Especially not after recent statements.
And after reading the Meshverse Journal piece just now, this doesn't seem to even matter anymore.
Definately! Thanks a lot Ian, much of that went right over my head, but im fairly techie so im sure i can work it out given a chance :)
Intrigued by the studio icehouse thing, i'd not heard of that...