Open-Source = Closed Society A tiny elite with programming skills will hold the keys to making worlds and will oppress others with endless home-brewed dungeons in their basements. Meanwhile, 1. Who will pay for developers? 2. How will property retain value when you can roll it out like toilet paper? 3. How will people's intellectual property be protected when you can endlessly extract and copy it? Or do you think you'll just have Creative Commons licenses and endlessly pass the hat at pubs to give people micropayments?
Schwartz Guillaume
· 3 years ago
Open source, closed source, Gratis Software, yearly licensing; it'll all be transparent to the end-user after the smoke clears. When people talk about "open source Second Life", they mean "making the server and client code freely available", not "hand the keys to a bunch of convenient Prokofian straw men". Besides, why is Miss Prokofy "I can steal free content and resell it if I wanna" Neva complaining about intellectual property protection?
Baba
· 3 years ago
<ol> <li> Developers will be paid by those who believe it is in their best interest to improve the software. Companies like IBM, Novell, and Apple have whole sections devoted to improving the open source software they use. </li> <li>
Who will be managing these server farms that this toilet paper land is rolled out on?
How much will be invested into each new simulator that is put online? What is the maintenance cost to keep it running? I think that will determine how we value land.
</li> <li>Intellectual property is easy! We don't handle it, you do. Your IP is your responsibility.</li> </ol>
Khamon
· 2 years ago
<ol> <li>Who will pay for developers?</li> <li>How will property retain value when you can roll it out like toilet paper?</li> <li>How will people's intellectual property be protected when you can endlessly extract and copy it?</li> </ol>
- Prokofy Compared to what? We the users will pay the developers just as we do now. Virtual property will be worth more in one world than another based on demand just as property in one sim or another based on various factors now. We will protect our own property rights via real world registrations and lawsuits just like we do now. At this point in time, Linden Lab only provides a clearing mechanism to fund developers that operate a closed, proprietary world. The severe limitations they impose, through feature restrictions and a centralized architecture, are barely tolerated by the growing userbase of Internet conditioned people. That arrangement can't last much longer. Considering the other two points, they do nothing to ensure virtual property values or protection of property rights. They never have and, frankly, I believe they never will.
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<li> Developers will be paid by those who believe it is in their best interest to improve the software. Companies like IBM, Novell, and Apple have whole sections devoted to improving the open source software they use. </li>
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Who will be managing these server farms that this toilet paper land is rolled out on?
How much will be invested into each new simulator that is put online? What is the maintenance cost to keep it running? I think that will determine how we value land.
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<li>Intellectual property is easy! We don't handle it, you do. Your IP is your responsibility.</li>
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- Prokofy Compared to what? We the users will pay the developers just as we do now. Virtual property will be worth more in one world than another based on demand just as property in one sim or another based on various factors now. We will protect our own property rights via real world registrations and lawsuits just like we do now. At this point in time, Linden Lab only provides a clearing mechanism to fund developers that operate a closed, proprietary world. The severe limitations they impose, through feature restrictions and a centralized architecture, are barely tolerated by the growing userbase of Internet conditioned people. That arrangement can't last much longer. Considering the other two points, they do nothing to ensure virtual property values or protection of property rights. They never have and, frankly, I believe they never will.