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Second Life Releases Open Source Client

Very interesting. I expect we’ll see more of this in the future. It’s not like black hats can’t reverse engineer your packet protocol a few hours after you patch, anyway.

Of course, this wouldn’t be a Second Life story without wackily surreal PR.

“We feel we may already have a bigger group of people writing code than any shared project in history, including Linux,” says Rosedale.

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