Open Source
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Once More unto the Breach: The Best Presentation on Software Business and Open Source I’ve Ever Seen
“Brent Williams presented ‘Open Source Business Models: A Wall Street Look at a Wild 2006 and the Prospects for Even More Fun in 2007′ at EclipseCon Tuesday.”
Firefox and PHP
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Firefox Extensions for Web Developers – Professional PHP
“I prefer Safari for my casual web browsing on the Mac, but for web development, nothing beats Firefox. (Firefox beats IE hands down on Windows.)”
Virtual World Alternatives
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Alternatives To Second Life – Second Life Games
“Where are the best candidates as viable alternatives to Second Life?”
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Outback Online: User Generated Places [A Yoick Project]
“Imagine if it was possible to build any world you dream of that was just for you and your friends. A club, a new planet, a race track with less gravity, a city in the fog…all infinitely scalable.”
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Home of the 3D Internet, Virtual Reality and Community Chat
“Active Worlds, the web’s most powerful Virtual Reality experience, lets you visit and chat in incredible 3D worlds that are built by other users.”
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Interreality Project – Virtual Object System
“The goal of the Interreality project is to develop a free and open platform for multiuser 3D virtual reality and interactive, collaborative 3D virtual spaces.”
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“CirumReality is a multiplayer online game in which you take the role of a character and explore imaginative player-created worlds.”
As a counterblast to the ‘open source business models’ piece above, we now have some rather intimidating laws in the UK. Apparently http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2185022/noose-tightens-software-pirates I could be taken to court by the Trading Standards people (who normally confine themselves to validating that gas pumps dispense correct measures) and put in prison for 10 years if I ‘do the wrong thing’ with Software.
Now, quite whether Trading Standards understand the difference between ‘selling copies of Linux and OpenOffice without source code’, and ‘selling Windows and Microsoft Office with no distribution agreement in place with Redmond’, I’m not sure. Legally, there is no difference, as far as I can tell.
We’ll see. ‘Prison for 10 years’ is not good for the Innovation business.