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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

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