[sldev] What is the point of firstlook and giving feedback to LL

[Johnnie Carling]

On Thursday 10 April 2008 02:22:40 pm Felix Duesenburg wrote:
> This project has been open sourced perhaps not without the reasoning
> that it's grown bigger than the company that created it. Don't we all
> wish that Microsoft would do such a thing! Well, no harm done here since
> the viewer itself never was a package with a price tag. Still, that it's
> out in the open now doesn't mean that we own it. It is Philip's baby
> that we're invited to help improve, not to just take from him. Nor do we
> own the people who are still nurturing it, as if they were to jump upon
> a bark from somewhere in the rear rows.

Well said, but I'd like to make a correction. IMHO the "project" is not 
opensourced, the SL viewer code is open sourced, that's a big difference. 
Like you said SL is LL's baby, they have their own internal SVN, internal 
roadmaps, internal ideas for the future, etc..

If somebody wants an opensourced project, a sourceforge account is free ;)

Personally I'd love to see an staroffice, openoffice.org type of relationship, 
but that's just me.

Johnnie Carling