[opensource-dev] Known details of LL 'Firefly' client-side scripting

Dzonatas Sol dzonatas at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 12:14:56 PDT 2010


It's still the same concept: to download and install...  they are 
overused buzzwords that make people think there are some elaborate 
separations for the basic ideas on how to migrate processes.

The sandbox model is just another abstraction to unify permissions.

It would be no different to install a linux emulator and use that as the 
sandbox. All sandboxed programs can run directly on the linux emulator.

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2010-03-17, at 12:31, Dzonatas Sol wrote:
>> You install a program on your computer, and you either trust it or 
>> you don't. It comes down to that, so it doesn't matter if it is .NET 
>> or Java or some binary made by company XYZZY.
>
> The quotes from the office hours make it seem like they're talking 
> about having in-world content pushing stuff onto your client, not 
> explicitly installing code.
>
>



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