James Cook, one of Second Life's founding engineer/programmers, stopped by New World Notes to comment on Qarl's open source alignment code contribution to the SL viewer, which has led to some disputes. James, who now works with Google and is involved with Chromium, another marriage of open source code and development by a for-profit corporation (i.e. Google) strikes a wise balance:
"[I have] long wished for a prim alignment tool. It's probably my fault we never had one. Qarl's patch looks good to me...
"That said, I now work on another company-backed open-source project, the Chromium browser. Those Jira comments are exactly the sort of comments any other engineer on Chromium would have made on a patch I submitted. I think it's reasonable to expect that a top-level tool in the object editing panel would work similarly to other top-level tools...
"This smacks of the typical kinds of misunderstandings that crop up when people can't talk face-to-face. I hope this can be worked out -- the viewer really could use some better alignment tools."
Read more and add your own comments here. By the way, if you haven't watched James' landmark video presentation of Linden World, the 2001 progenitor of Second Life, it's embedded below:
Read more from James about Linden World and SL's early years here.
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