der Mouse:
>> There are all *sorts* of things to complain about in Twitter, Plurk,
>> Second Life, and all the Web X.Y Kool-Aid, but the things that people
>> who haven't used them to speak of think are the problems aren't
>> actually the problems at all...
>
>...for you.
>
>For me, for example, they all have one major problem: they require use
>of a Web interface, or a closed-source "application download" (which
>wouldn't run for me even if I were willing to try it).
And as well as the text-mode Twitter clients, since I mentioned Second
Life I should also mention that the official Second Life viewer (the
"application download") is open-source (basically GPL, although the
default download has an exception for some non-GPL libraries that it uses;
but there's a pure-GPL version that you can use if you want to substitute
your own libraries for those). And there are a bunch of other open-source
viewers (Imprudence, Hippo, RealXtend, etc) that you can use if you want.
Just sayin'... :)
DC
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