Open Source on SL

A comment on the SL decision to go Open Source from Van Hemlock, the Virtual Monster Hunter:

It's difficult to see why they've decided to do this. The stated reason, the 'invitation to the world to help build this global space for communication, business, and entertainment' is suitably woolly, but is certainly in line with the company's typical utopian stargazing. Perhaps the recent recruitment drive didn't go as planned, so they're just outsourcing development of the client, on all of us! Perhaps their work here is done, and now they've been recalled back to the mothership, leaving Mankind with the gift of Web3D? Perhaps it's a staggering breathtaking act of supreme ego and/or generosity - 'we've done the hard work, and now it is our gift to you, the peoples of Earth. Be excellent to one another!' ... Perhaps they're just crazy - it happens sometimes.

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