Opening up SL’s source code

I think that would be a little bit like implying there’s no business to be had on the Web if you give away Apache. The Web has shown us where a lot of the value is: identity, transactions, search, communities. And so nothing that we’ve talked about requires that Linden Lab give up any of those pieces. I think the key is for us to enable growth, building a much, much bigger market, and attempt to make money where it makes sense.

Glyn Moody has an interesting interview with Linden Lab CTO Cory Ondrejka on the opening up of Second Life’s source code over on LWN. Recommended reading in full.

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