Comments on: Opening the Gates of Second Life – Linden Labs Announce Open Source http://www.managingthegray.com/2007/01/08/opening-the-gates-of-second-life-linden-labs-announce-open-source/ C.C. Chapman gives you and your business real world advice and tactics to start leveraging social media in your daily life Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:41:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: C.C. Chapman http://www.managingthegray.com/2007/01/08/opening-the-gates-of-second-life-linden-labs-announce-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2455 C.C. Chapman Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:25:56 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2007/01/08/opening-the-gates-of-second-life-linden-labs-announce-open-source/#comment-2455 Like I said Chris, it's going to be damn fun to watch and see what happens. Like I said Chris, it’s going to be damn fun to watch and see what happens.

]]> By: Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast http://www.managingthegray.com/2007/01/08/opening-the-gates-of-second-life-linden-labs-announce-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-2454 Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:24:38 +0000 http://www.managingthegray.com/2007/01/08/opening-the-gates-of-second-life-linden-labs-announce-open-source/#comment-2454 Get ready for new grids. If Linden Labs is dedicated to opening the source of SL, it'll be a short time before the back-end sim architecture is reverse-engineered from the client. What would virtual worlds look like if everyone had one? Will we need to create an open federation of identities so you can traverse multiverses? Or, like the Web, will we need a different sign-on for every multiverse? If that's the case, expect the economics to radically change, too. Suppose the Student Loan Network opens up a grid where the game is progressively more free in exchange for progressively more registration data? Will information trump money? Get ready for new grids.

If Linden Labs is dedicated to opening the source of SL, it’ll be a short time before the back-end sim architecture is reverse-engineered from the client. What would virtual worlds look like if everyone had one? Will we need to create an open federation of identities so you can traverse multiverses? Or, like the Web, will we need a different sign-on for every multiverse? If that’s the case, expect the economics to radically change, too. Suppose the Student Loan Network opens up a grid where the game is progressively more free in exchange for progressively more registration data? Will information trump money?

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