Linden Lab founder and chairman, Philip Rosedale, yesterday announced changes to the open-source Second Life viewer program that would enable the fast-tracking of user-contributions to the code-base.

Outsiders will be able to modify the viewer software; Linden Lab plans to follow suit with the server software, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Second Life blogfather Wagner James Au weighs in on Viewer 2.0 He loves it — or at least he loves parts of it — but he says it won’t drive Second Life mainstream adoption. He’s right. Read James’s ...

Linden Labs, creators of the hugely popular 3D virtual world Second Life, released the software last week as free and open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2. Currently only the ...

Recent months have not been wholly kind to Second Life, and those circumstances don't seem finished just yet. The Emerald client, one of the most popular third-party viewers -- estimated to be used by ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Linden Lab on Monday released as open-source software the viewer used to access Second Life and plans to follow suit with the server software that ...

Linden Lab on Monday released as open-source software the viewer used to access Second Life and plans to follow suit with the server software that powers the company's virtual realm. The initial move ...