[sldev] Voice=Proprietary

[Soft Noel]

On Mon, March 12, 2007 11:34 am, Jason Giglio wrote:
> The point is all the effort is duplicated.  Linden Lab is going to put
> development into this unsuitable solution, then we are going to have to
> go back and make a new one that is open source.

I'm speculating here, but --

SLDev hasn't a long enough track record to allow LL to rationally rely on
the open source community for a voice solution -- that's the case now, and
was certainly more so whenever LL pulled the trigger on Vivox. Vivox was a
sure thing, while LL couldn't even guess whether the open source community
would have delivered. To boot, if Vivox can provide the voice servers and
irregular loads of specialized engineering labor cost-effectively, that
may have been as much of a consideration as the voice technology offered.

To take over the voice project, the best way to go about that isn't to
waste a lot of cycles angrily shooting down LL's solution. The best way is
to learn the considerations for LL's choice and demonstrate that you can
cover the same bases.