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Linden Lab announced this morning they are making the source code for its Second Life viewer software available to developers to make enhancements, modifications and add new features. The move has been expected and marks a massive strategic move on...

So the client side has gone open source - whoopidieewoooTo me, this is just a glorified version of adding personalized "skins" to your viewer.In the long run, I'm sure things will end up working a bit better, a bit faster, a bit less crashy. All the users finding ways to make things better is always good.Will this all effect business & the economy? Will it hurt any businesses? Will it help? What is everyones thoughts?Will land costs go up or down?Will linden$ value go up or down?How about people's products?Also, do you forsee any new scams coming from people spreading their own viewers?

So the client side has gone open source - whoopidieewoooTo me, this is just a glorified version of adding personalized "skins" to your viewer.In...

Another train ride and some time for writing. This time I wanted to reflect a bit on the copybot discussion and I might even follow up on that later. And please excuse typos CopyBot revisitedRecently in conjunction with the big CopyBot controversy there was also lots of talk about Open Source. In this case of [...]

Ever wanted to learn how to build a website, social network, or blog using Drupal from scratch? Webpodge is going to go through the steps, release sample code, give resources, and give advice on how to go about starting your own open source dream site...