Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-10-01 Thread Serendipity Seraph
On Sep 30, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Kesick, Nicholas Charles wrote: It seems you know very little about Windows Server operations, and who’s to say Microsoft would come in and change all of the underlying OSes? I wouldn’t recommend runing LINUX with Opensim on anything less than 4GB (production),

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-10-01 Thread Rob Nelson
On 9/30/2010 3:45 PM, Kesick, Nicholas Charles wrote: It seems you know very little about Windows Server operations, and who's to say Microsoft would come in and change all of the underlying OSes? I wouldn't recommend runing LINUX with Opensim on anything less than 4GB (production), and

[Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Smith
Big rumour that Microsoft may buy LL: http://www.techeye.net/internet/microsoft-to-buy-second-life If so, any impact on OpenSim development? I would like to think there would be a precedent of: .Net Mono == MS/LL server OpenSim How safe is OpenSim from potential legal threats? (if MS did

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Rob Nelson
Yeah, great idea. Turn all of the comparatively efficient Linux servers into Windows Server 2008 servers that all require another 4GB of memory just to keep running, and frequent security updates to avoid worms. That and they'd change from MySQL to MSSQL, which would make the asset and data

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Robert Martin
Actually the SL beta group was laughing at the prospect. Why would Microsoft want to BUY the company when they can just aquire the tech with out also having to get the baggage. -- Robert L Martin ___ Opensim-dev mailing list

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Frank Nichols
The customer base is valuable. Both those that are active and those that once signed up and then left. Very valuable. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Robert Martin robertl...@gmail.com wrote: Actually the SL beta group was laughing at the prospect. Why would Microsoft want to BUY the company

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Robert Martin
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Frank Nichols j.frank.nich...@gmail.com wrote: The customer base is valuable. Both those that are active and those that once signed up and then left. Very valuable. and i would bet that 90% of the ones that matter (corrected by L$ amounts or inworld hours) would

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Kesick, Nicholas Charles
...@students.ecu.edu! From: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Rob Nelson Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:29 PM To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm? Yeah, great idea. Turn all

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Smith
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Melanie mela...@t-data.com wrote: I can't see MS continuing with OpenSource viewers, and I can't see them supporting any platform other than Windows for the closed viewer they would come up with. I would most certainly liquidate my assets and leave if that

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Cristina Videira Lopes
The OpenSimulator project has absolutely nothing to do with Linden Lab, aside from the fact that it includes one plugin that implements the protocol that their open-sourced viewer understands. In the extreme worst case scenario, if code in OpenSim was proven to come from the GPL viewer,

Re: [Opensim-dev] If MIcrosoft buys LL, impact on OpenSIm?

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel Smith
That is awesome to read, Crista. It is what I suspected, but even better. Daniel On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes lo...@ics.uci.eduwrote: The OpenSimulator project has absolutely nothing to do with Linden Lab, aside from the fact that it includes one plugin that