[Opensim-users] Friends in trouble

[James Stallings II]

Crap, I messed up your name (again :( )

Welcome back STEFAN :)

Cheers!


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:38 AM, James Stallings II <
james.stallings at gmail.com> wrote:

> Welcome back Stephan =-)
>
> Cheers!
> James
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Stefan Andersson <lbsa71 at hotmail.com>wrote:
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>>  Esteemed fellow metanauts,
>>
>>
>>
>> Today I read this disturbing post;
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>> http://blogs.sun.com/wonderland/entry/good_news_and_bad_news
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>> Basically, the SUN Wonderland seems to be losing SUN (now Oracle) support.
>> They now need to transition into a community-driven effort.
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>> This prompted me to add the following comment to the blog post:
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>> “Sad Tidings in deed. I don't know if any of you have been following the
>> OpenSim project, or been in touch with it, but maybe this is an golden
>> opportunity to seek inter-project collaboration. The OpenSim community has
>> worked without a central organization backing it up since the beginning, so
>> I guess we have some experience working the way I guess you need to do.
>> Since we have no central organization, nobody can speak for it, but most of
>> us are nice people, always eager to help a fellow metanaut. (on an unrelated
>> note, I for one would love++ to see a wonderland stack for OpenSim.)”
>>
>>
>>
>> While nobody can tell nobody what to do I personally think the OpenSim
>> community should do our outmost to help and support this sibling project.
>> Contrary to the beliefs of many, the field of virtual worlds are nowhere
>> near the maturity where we can stand the consolidation-by-biting-dust that
>> we have seen recently. There will be no thousand worlds blooming.
>>
>>
>>
>> Incidentally, I have for some time been thinking that it might be timely
>> to start thinking about how OpenSim would be able to support the
>> architectures of client-oriented environments (like Wonderland and Unity)
>> better.
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>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> /Stefan
>>
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