So, right now, Second Life is the Compuserve or AOL of virtual worlds. Is that something we as a community want to promote right now? Sure it's all funky and bleeding edge and epistemologically fascinating and so on - I'm weighing the difference between agitating for openness from the inside or choosing to avoid a closed ecosystem.
So, I'd like to offer my support to Jeff's email and position.
I really welcome the open-sourcing of their client (as I'd like to have a look to see what all the noise is about), but I think it's watering down our message if Linux Australia comes out and supports (what is currently) proprietary software. -- Michael Davies "Do what you think is interesting, do somthing that michael@the-davies.net you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise http://michaeldavies.org you won't do it well anyway." -- Brian Kernighan