Comments on: Will Linden Lab GOM a Viewer?

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By: katiem

katiem — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:02:20 +0000

I disagree. I don’t think the coders of the “best” third party viewer will be absorbed en masse by LL. Most of them, quite frankly, so this sort of stuff in their spare time and don’t really need or want a job with LL.

I fail to see how this is different from any other open source vs closed app war. The browser war you mentioned is a great example – you don’t see the top coders for firefox getting swallowed up by Microsoft.

By: Kalel Mommsen

Kalel Mommsen — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:16:14 +0000

Some of the top coders aren’t too keen when dealing with linden labs. it would take some persuasion on their hand.

i’m sure they are going to find bugs and quickly adapt to get this customized viewer out before linden labs can Make a second move after they get flooded with alot of complaints.

By: Prad Prathivi

Prad Prathivi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:52:30 +0000

Joshua brings up the good point that Third Party Viewers are (usually) on a GPL license, so the quick answer is “No”.

I still say they’ll hire the coders behind the most successful viewer though, to brush up their own.