[sldev] Opening the server source?

[Laurent Laborde]

On 6/25/07, Kelly Washington <kelly at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> Tao Takashi wrote:
> > (as long as nobody creates the backend services themselves and creates
> > another (separate) grid).
> >
> This is a key point to remember.
>
> In addition to Soft's excellent points I have a couple of my own:
>
> * Just having the source but being unable to run it is of extremely
> limited use, even for bug fixing.  Right now the 'server side' is a
> large cloud of services, some central, some distributed to various
> degrees.  If we release *just* the simulator source right now it would
> be essentially useless.  Until someone reverse engineered the central
> services and started running their own back end systems...

Then LL could create a separate grid to allow 3rd party sim. And find
a way to make it useless for other purpose than testing and debuging.
e.g : a specific grid with an asset server cleared every week. It will
make the grid useless for "residents" and you'll save money by
maintaining only a light-weight database instead of the huge (and
probably very costly) asset server.

-- 
kerunix Flan.