[sldev] Re: [META] Exciting reuter's post about OpenSim

[Adam Frisby]

Heh - first half of that article is a tad sensationalist - opensim wont 
be competing with LL for a _long_ while (the two months came from a 
unrelated question about using OpenSim for teaching) - grid design isnt 
really on any of the opensim dev's radar - it's an insanely complex 
topic that leads only to madness.

Adam

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> From: "Tim Shephard" <tshephard at gmail.com>
> 
>> Well, if OpenSim moves to a model where all inventory is open, like
>> images on a web page,  but not transferable (enforced by DMCA), then
>> this whole concept of central inventory servers becomes irrelevant.
> 
> 
> They don't even have the ability to keep inventory across sims on the  
> same server!
> 
> Not to mention that inventory includes your whole avatar. Without  
> permanent inventory, every time you log on you're Ruth again, and  your 
> inventory is *at most* whatever someone using the same account  name 
> happened to have the last time they were in that sim. If someone  sets 
> up a grid (and if they're IBM or Coke they'll have to) they'll  need an 
> inventory server for that grid.
> 
> Whether your inventory is stored on your computer by your client, or  a 
> central inventory server, or CAP links back to the sim you acquired  the 
> content in, you have to be able to retain inventory across sims  within 
> a given grid. Otherwise this isn't like the web, it's like the  bulletin 
> board systems of the '70s and '80s. The ability to see the  same content 
> from anywhere no matter where you started is what MAKES  the web the web 
> instead of a bunch of disconnected servers.
> 
> And it's what makes the grid the grid.
> 
> A grid without inventory, no matter who's running it, isn't a grid at  
> all. It's like a thin client when the network's down.
> 
> They'll get an inventory mechanism of some kind working. They'll have  to.
> 
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