I just like to shop and chat with friends in Second Life. I don get this techy stuff, how will “open source” benefit my experience?
This is a fundamental improvement in the way that the Second Life Grid’s infrastructure gets built, which improves the experience for all users of the Second Life Grid. In the short term, this will provide a richer communication channel between the community and the engineers that build it. This gives the community greater insight necessary to make more informed suggestions about how to improve the Second Life Grid, and gives the engineers another valuable channel to get feedback and oversight. It allows Linden Lab to more easily extend our quality assurance process outside the walls of our (real world) building. As the architecture improves, standards evolve that lead to the creation of an ecosystem of tools and other software products that make Second Life a much more compelling experience. With more tools available, content creators get a greater and faster ability to create more compelling objects, more interesting buildings and in-world architecture, and more quirky and unique fas
