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8th January 2007 - Link Blog

The Second Life Viewer is now open-source (via) I’d heard that the biggest barrier to this was the need to protect the SL economy from malicious disruption. The FAQ is fascinating, and a real tribute to open-source principles.

Posted 8th January 2007 at 6:47 pm

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