Baba Sucks

Take a gander at this pretty sight. That’s right, the Nintendo Wii connected to Second Live(via IRC). It’s too pretty. It uses the libsecondlife IRC gateway and CGI IRC on EFnet. That’s the best we got til WiiLi releases their juice. Enjoy Pix

Using libsecondlife irc gateway to get chat to IRC where it is relayed to an IRC connected Nintendo Wii.. sexy

The Opera browser pointed at a web based CGI IRC client which relayes chat to #libsl on EFNet and then into Second Life. RAD

How?

Go ahead and try it for yourself. Join the channel #libsl, and chat! Your words will carry on the internet tubes to the libsecondlife HQ in Hooper (no longer, but it was fun while it lasted. The Wii in IRC is still cool.)

The Register gave libsecondlife a little writeup.

Second Life is certainly at an intriguing point in its development. A fully open sourced Second Life has the potential to become the de facto standard for a three-dimensional version of the world wide web. “We would love to see a fully open source metaverse,” says Freedman.

THis is from a blog comment I made to Robin Linden’s blog post on Copyrights and Content Creation in Second Life(still in moderation 11:30 pst)
##

CopyBot is not a product that we sell or distribute. It’s a debugging tool and silly demo with a [now] obviously bad choice of name. Hopefully you won’t be seeing copy bot on SLex any time soon..

The issue at hand with copy bot seems HUGE!

“Oh my god why would they do something like that?!”

But our reason for showing this application around was partly we were proud of or achievement, and then on the other hand, if it’s this easy, we should tell people that relying on the Second Life systems to protect content is not feasible any longer.

For a while now we’ve had this project on the back burner that has been asked for so many times by content developers, an ability to back up content to your hard drive and restore it in Second Life. Basically import and export functions.

That’s the basis of CopyBot as well excepting the permission check. The problem is the difference between CopyBot and and import export tool is little more than 1 line of code that is easily commented out by even novice programmers.

What you see in CopyBot is the same capabilities that any import/export tool would have.

It’s not something easy to deal with, and we’re struggling ourselves with the issues that CopyBot has brought. It’s caused many personal conflicts as well between developers and their friends who do not see the merit in what we do.

I just found this great interview with Robert Sutor. Sutor is IBM’s VP of Standards and Open Source, which makes him a really cool guy in my book. The interview is reposted here because I don’t want to link to a PDF.

Related to this interview Robert recently blogged about IBM’s new site devoted to open source and business.

Read more