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Didn't meet in Second Life

maffulli

Saturday 21 April 2007

I thought it was hilarious: in the end we didn't meet in SL, we chatted on IRC :) Much better, because my little laptop is really not powerful enough to run the GNU/Linux client. I don't know who's to blame: the video card, the OpenGL drivers or the SL client, or all of them.

I met with long time friends Valerio, Paci and Xdatap1 on SLIRC to chat about Second Life. All of them would like to do something in SL for and with Free Software. At the moment I don't think that FSFE should invest time or energy in SL, for various reasons. But I can always change my mind. What do you think?

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rca

Saturday 21 April 2007

If all that SL can serve as is a glorified IRC client, I think the Free Software world's efforts would indeed be better directed at other things. Look at WorldForge for example, a project that has been Free Software from the start, that has a very well-defined goal it has been working towards for years. I'm sure they wouldn't mind some help, as their project is a behemoth.

SL has its charms, and I do think Linden Lab are a better member of the Free Software biosphere than many other comparable companies, but just think what could have happened if they had contributed their work to projects like WorldForge!

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