“Wow: has there ever been a month in computing like this one? A
January distinguished by not one major announcement, not two, but
four significant events that will surely go down as milestones in
the history of technology.“First, and probably most importantly for readers of this blog,
Linden Lab announced that it was releasing the code of its Second
Life client under the GNU GPLv2. I’ve written before about why
Second Life is important, and why, therefore, it matters that the
open source world participate in this revolution on equal terms
with proprietary platforms…”