New Sony Home vs. Second Life

I think that Sony Home is a extremely silly initiative if they think they should copy Second Life. even if they are better in graphics or on other parts. Linden Lab has been quite open to enable other projects to use Second Life also and I think rather than doing something again like having many [...]

Second Life client is open source

They just GPled it : http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/getit
So thats what most Linux users in SL will not like to see, but I am VERY happy.

Free Software Group in SL

Finally the Free Software Group in SL had its first meeting you can find pictures, descriptions and a chat log here. We were only 3 people but had a really good discussion. Our next meeting is at next saturday at the same place. I hope some more people will come. And i like to vote [...]

Is DRM really evil?

As I was talking with some people in SecondLife about how one could protect free licensed content and code in SL one idea that came up was to use DRM. But isn't DRM evil?
Consider that: You are writing a novella and release it under an open content license. If there would be no protection of [...]

Split off of free software group

Funny: Although I was the one who initiated the first Linux User group meeting I am now the first one that leaves. I have formed a new group entitled "Free Software". Some thoughts about the split:
In my view the heart of Linux is free software – but many of the Linux users in the SL [...]

Is SL a game?

I had the idea to ask me this question again and again after a while. And see who my views re changing. Right now I would say: Yes, because people use it as such.it is an infinite game where the rules are very raw and sparsely defined.
Many citizens pretned to take it seriously – there [...]

A speach of no(n)sense

Yesterday I followed the speach of Governor Philip Linden. This was awfully slow and he also had some crashes (so the Sim he made his speach, too). I followed it along with a crowd at  a repeater at the new citizen plaza. My general criticism:
This could be a whole more compact.
And I rather would have [...]

ninjafoo Ng: Linux 1.9.0 Might Miss Deadline

ninjafoo wrote about  Linux 1.9.0 Might Miss Deadline.
I think the problem is not Linden Labs not pushing this thing. I think
1) The thing is of open source Clients. Linux and Windows clients should be both open source and developed hand in hand
2) Transparency. People dont know what will come – external developers can not help
I [...]

SecondLife further experiences

SecondLife(SL) is also like a big chat room that has distances. You can not hear what somebody writes until he says is 20 meters from you. or unless he shouts (then it reaches 100 meters). Many citizens of SL are not very experienced in chat. Well they might be long year SL citizens but they [...]