Second Life to Open Source Server Platform

At the Platforms and Technologies Panel at VW07 Joe Miller, VP for Platform and Technology Development at Linden Lab announced:

• We’ll be open-sourcing the back end so sims can run anywhere on any machine whether trusted by us or not.
• We’ll be delivering assets in a totally different method that won’t be such a burden on the simulators.
• Very soon we’ll be updating simulators to support multiple versions so that we don’t have to update the entire Grid at once.
• We’ll be using open protocols.
• SL cannot truly succeed as long as one company controls the Grid.

Source: 3pointD.com