[Opensim-dev] The essence of "grid"

[Charles Krinke]

Well, Mike. I respect your opinion and the others expressed about our existing community.

The community is what has gotten us to this point and it is important to listen to our community.

It seems reasonable that additional features can be added to OpenSim in a somewhat cavalier fashion, and thats fine.

Problems may occur if we start making existing features inoperable of shrug our shoulders when our community is hurting because some feature important to one use case may be subsumed by another use case.

So, with that said, lets evolve OpenSim and consider all the use cases, of which 'gridmode' is an important one.

Charles




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From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson at hp.com>
To: Melanie <melanie at t-data.com>
Cc: "opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de" <opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 8:24:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] The essence of "grid"

Yes, just voicing my opinion.  And my concern is that you will prevent
me from running a walled garden in trying to get your "inventory on the
client" hypergrid model working.

As has been pointed out, the sources are BSD licensed, I could always
fork what's there and do my own thing.  It seemed more productive
however to voice my opinion and at least try and represent an alternate
point of view. Personally I think the rush to hypergrid is glossing over
lots of issues and the trust models being discussed and over simplified
at best. Again, thats my opinion and at this point I don't expect it
will get listened to.

Mike

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 15:12 +0000, Melanie wrote:
> 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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-- 
Mike Dickson <mike.dickson at hp.com>
BladeSystem infrastructure R&D

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