Machinima for Dummies: Second Life CTO resigns - connection to the apparent reverse on Open-Source?

Second Life CTO resigns - connection to the apparent reverse on Open-Source?

Hugh "Nomad" Hancock — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:34:00 +0000

Boingboing has just reported that Second Life’s Chief Technical Officer, Cory Ondrejka, has just left Linden Labs citing “irreconcilable differences”.

Since he was the man behind the movement to Open-Source both the viewer and the server, I can’t help but wonder if those differences had something to do with the apparent reversal in policy on open-sourcing the SL servers which we reported on recently. If so, things don’t look good for Second Life Open-Source right now.

EDIT (Johnnie): The original story was broken on Massively by Moo Money. There are a few follow-ups linked from there too, including Cory’s official response.

"Second Life CTO resigns - connection to the apparent reverse on Open-Source?" by Hugh "Nomad" Hancock

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:47:10 +0000

On the upside, maybe he’ll move on to do something more Open-Sourcey in the virtual world, er, world.

"Second Life CTO resigns - connection to the apparent reverse on Open-Source?" by Johnnie Ingram

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:39:25 +0000

I think it’s fair to say that this pretty sad news regardless, but especially so if it sounds the death knell for any further potential open-sourcing of the SL codebase. Here’s hoping not.