Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Second Life Goes Open Source - Should It Be Non Profit, Too?

I'm a huge fan of OSS -- but not as big of fan of Second Life. Here's a nice TechCrunch look at latest Second Life development.

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Second Life Goes Open Source - Should It Be Non Profit, Too?:

Second Life made their client software open source today, sparking near rapture among its hard core users (see comments to their blog post). The first two paragraphs of the announcement talk a lot about about the inevitability of destiny. And they mention Second Life in the same breath as Mosaic and Mozilla.

I’m a Second Life fan, but sometimes the hype gets to be a little too much. At any given time up to 20,000 or so people are logged in to the service. That’s not enough adoption to justify putting Second Life in the same sentence as Mosaic and Mozilla just yet. Today, it’s the playground for just a few hard core users who can live with an annoying server lag...