[Opensim-dev] The essence of "grid"

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Mike Dickson wrote:
> 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, nobody is going to prevent people from running walled gardens, as it's a valid use case in many scenarios.  If we 
did somehow come to a point where we had to make a choice, then this would have to be subject to a proper proposal which 
makes it clear what functionality is being removed.  But I should think that Hypergrid development can go forward 
without that happening.

But I do have to also point out that OpenSim development is largely driven by the interest of the developers (since 
there's no single company behind it).  If there's a lot of development interest behind Hypergrid then this is the 
direction that's inevitably going to progress most.  If people coming along contributing code that enhances different 
architectures, then development will also be driven in that direction.

> 
> 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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