While the Second Life viewer has been open source for a while now, the key to an open 3D internet econology is an open source server. "It appears now that this server will not be Second Life. "There are a lot of cases of monolithic design and improper trust relationships between components that would need to be addressed." Now I took a lot of flack last spring when I criticized Second Life for being closed and noted that they couldn't open source without causing the Second Life economy to collapse. I challenged their representative, who insisted it would be open sourced. "Yeah, that's likely," I basically responded. Well - to all those defenders of Second Life, here it comes: I told you so. So where does the future really lie? Well there's Croquet and Project Darkstar along with OpenSim.
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