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Second Life Client to be Open Source

10th January 2007

Second Life Client to be Open Source

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On Monday, Linden Lab annouced that the client software (the viewer) for Second Life will be released as open source and that the server software may also be opened. Opening their software to outside developers will most likely make the product more robust and less buggy. Several successful and well-known open source project include OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox and the ubiquitous web server Apache. If Linden Labs follows through with releasing the server to the open source community, organizations could provide virtual representations of their worlds. For example, a propective student would be able to tour Messiah’s campus (including building) and chat with admissions counselors or students in the virtual world.

Read the full press release.

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  1. 1 On January 10th, 2007, jsentz said:

    Bob,
    Thanks for posting this! I absolutely agree with you that Linden making their code open source is (most likely) going to move this ahead quite a bit. And I think you’re absolutely correct that we (Messiah) could use something like this to reach prospective students for the purpose of virtual tours and so forth. Imagine the possbility of a student in another country being able to “tour” the entire campus before even setting foot in the US! I think this is going to be huge.

    Justin

    posted on January 10th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

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