[sldev] About the Open Source Viewer

Nicholaz Beresford nicholaz at blueflash.cc
Mon Jul 16 16:39:57 PDT 2007


I like both ... the Sandbox Edition and
Bleeding Edge.  Bleeding Edge is more catchy
though ... it has something cool!


Nick


Second Life from the inside out:
http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/


Dirk Moerenhout wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> Dzonatas Edition
>> JIRA-Patch Testbed
>> JIRA-Patch Viewer
>> Patch-Test Edition
>> Patch Frontrunner
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> Second Life from the inside out:
>> http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------
>> >> 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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