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Second Life Open Sources Client

Posted by Hemos on from the i-call-upon-the-community dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just noticed that Second Life released their client under the GPL today, and that they're up to 2.4 million users. Article says that 15% of users contribute scripted objects."

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  1. From the monoculture of Microsoft... by petrus4 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...to the monoculture of the GPL. Makes me wonder if a time is going to come when most people will more or less forget that other OSS licenses exist.

    I guess, sadly, that it's predictable...between the black of proprietary software and the white of the BSD license/public domain, the GPL does represent the proverbial shade of grey.