[sldev] About the Open Source Viewer

Dirk Moerenhout blakar at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 16:37:54 PDT 2007


What about "SL Bleeding Edge Viewer"?

It implies that you're running a viewer that has code which is
advanced compared to the official version. It should also make users
aware that it'll not always be bug free.

I mostly like it because most of the other names sound "boring" ;)

Dirk aka Blakar Ogre


On 7/16/07, Nicholaz Beresford <nicholaz at blueflash.cc> wrote:
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> Dzonatas Edition
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> Nick
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> Matthew Dowd wrote:
> > Well, I'd propose to call it what it is so possibilities are
> >
> > Open Source Test Viewer
> > Open Source Development Viewer
> > Open Source Sandbox Viewer
> > Open Source Contributions Sandbox Viewer
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> >
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> > ----------------------------------------
> >> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:13:29 -0700
> >> From: dzonatas at dzonux.net
> >> To: jhurliman at wsu.edu
> >> Subject: Re: [sldev] About the Open Source Viewer
> >> CC: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
> >>
> >> It was never meant to be so aggressively profound like that.
> >>
> >> I had other ideas for a name, but I settled on something just bland and
> >> more so generic.
> >>
> >> See my sentiments here:
> >> https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev/2007-July/003329.html
> >>
> >> Obviously, I'm open for a new name for it.
> >>
> >> John Hurliman wrote:
> >>> In hindsight OpenSL was a bad enough name for a fork of the viewer,
> >>> but "Open Source Viewer" is just ridiculous. That's like calling
> >>> Ubuntu "Open Source Linux". Not only does the name mis-convey what the
> >>> project does (without context it sounds like a free image viewing
> >>> app), but as previously mentioned every SL viewer is open source. At
> >>> worst this could be conveyed as an attempt to discredit existing SL
> >>> viewers.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Dzonatas wrote:
> >>>> Interesting view.
> >>>>
> >>>> I put it on the Agenda:
> >>>> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Source_Meeting/Agenda
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Kiwi Alfa wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm a long-time lurker on this list, and I think this may be my first
> >>>>> post, but I just wanted to mention that this could cause confusion
> >>>>> since the viewer is already open source - the name makes it sound as
> >>>>> if Linden Labs' own viewer *isn't* open source, which isn't true.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just my two cents. :) (I'll probably introduce myself properly at
> >>>>> some stage.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Kiwi.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 7/16/07, Dzonatas  wrote:
> >>>>>> I wrote up a wiki page about the Open Source Viewer.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Source_Viewer
> >>>>>>
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