[Opensim-dev] The essence of "grid"

[Melanie]

No one is preventing you from running a walled garden/SL clone. The 
hypergrid won't touch you in that case. Hypergrid most certainly 
belongs into core and will stay there.

Melanie

Mike Dickson wrote:
> That's been my thought all along. What if the content in the users
> "inventory" is my IP.  I've granted a license for a customer/user to use
> it (perhaps even limited to where the content is used). 
> 
> I appreciate the energy around the hypergrid concept. But there are lots
> of scenarios where the hypergrid is entirely irrelevant. I still believe
> implementation of it belongs in the forge and not in the core. But I
> completely agree with Michael that the energy around Hypergrid
> shoduldn't de-empahsive the platform aspects of OpenSim in such a way
> that a non-Hypergrid case becomes unimplementable (or even harder).
> 
> Mike
> 
>>  
>> I know this is where you and others have hashed things to, but please 
>> keep in mind -- the scenario where an organization may not want the user 
>> to be in control of their inventory, and where they have no say as to 
>> where it is stored.  I understand that it's not the general scenario of 
>> people talking about hypergrid, but OpenSim is a platform that will be 
>> used for things other then "hypergridding" and I don't want to see 
>> alternative scenarios ruled out, or marginalized because of the current 
>> focus on hypergrid.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Michael Cortez
> 
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