The other thing that I have to laugh about is this insistence that all those browser worlds are all “wrong” — shallow, commercial, unconnected, blah blah blah. But…if people go spend time on them, by sheer numbers and sheer time, they dwarf all those robust downloadable chunky worlds we all like better (I know I sure run out of things to do in Slim Jim world and Lively and go back to SL).

BUT you can’t harangue us all with the open source mantras again, demanding that you all be able to “run free at last,” and then bang on people who solve the problem of one or two big walled gardens by making…lots of other smaller walled gardens or one big giant walled garden like Lively. Not connecting up and not having standards imply has to be part of the recipe for openness too, otherwise it’s not, er, open, you see.

Standards come when people see they are useful. They aren’t useful now for anything but sandboxing because of your adamant beliefs in the “futility” of mechanical means for protecting IP. Sorry, but you drive people to those other worlds you find so dissatisfying with that belief.

Although their niche is social networks, since they support the open standard for web3d, are already “there” in the open 3d web. They ARE able to work with other technologies to improve the human condition, not that it is in their biz plan, but they could. Go to the web3d.org site. The web3d standard is constantly evolving the way we interact with the 3d web. Developing a world of applications and content that Open-Sim couldn’t on its best day. I don’t want to trash anyone supporting “open” but as I stated in another post, Open-Sim is a step in the right direction on broken feet.