Even though Nick and I don't venture into Second Life much, we have many friends who do, Ecocandle Riel, being one of them. So for Ecocandle's sake we will post most stories we come across concerning second life.Today in Techcrunch they touch on how SL has become open source. I found the following interesting from the article...
At current growth trends, though, SL could be a real economic force in a few years. When things really start to hop, SL will look more like it’s own private Internet...What might make more sense in the long run is more of a Wikipedia-like approach to Second Life. A non profit organization running open source software where people can add their own island just by plugging in a server in their living room or the hosting provider of their choice. Whoever builds that and provides a serious alternative to the SL experience could help the world at least as much as Wikipedia has.
What I find interesting is the thought of SL as the future of the internet. Ecocandle, or Meeks as I call him, has preached this to me since I first learned of SL about 6 months ago. From the hundreds of articles I have read on SL I haven't really seen anyone else say it until now. I think for this to truely happen people would have to be able to make their own islands without it being controlled by Linden Labs and then these islands would become their own independent webpages, if you will.
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