I’m an unprofessional Koala! I like that.

coco

Cocoanut Koala is shockingly unprofessional.

LL

Could just as easily be some old code for something that isn’t used anymore (or never was) – Linden Labs are really bad at removing that sort of thing.

I don’t think you truly understand “tekkies”, or more properly “geeks” as well as you think you do.

By definition, open source means the source is available to anyone. That doesn’t mean that everyone automagically gets a copy, but it does mean that it’s available to anyone who wants it.

To use that source doesn’t require much skill at all. There’s all sorts of information telling people how to get sources, and what to do with them. Major alterations often require serious coding knowledge, but some modifications are well within the skills of anyonee who can follow a “recipe”. But there’s many, many people who use and benefit from open source code every minute of every day without knowing the slightest bit of programming code. I use open source code al the time, Firefox, Claws-Mail, GIMP, Gaim etc. I’ve compiled open source code on my decidedly non-standard Linux machine.

Second Life as it is now, as much as you evidently find this repulsive to your extremist code-cave world-view, is actually more democratic and free, because it’s a world made by a company to which anybody can come and make stuff with tools that are not so easy to learn — but a lot easier to learn that sitting and coding C+++ from scratch on some back of the moon with a rabbit and a cube. That’s because they have to have some sense of responsibility to a public at large that *pays their bills* with subscriptions and auction buys and island buys.

Prokofy, writing code is as democratic as using the tools of SL. Is there really that much difference between:

Hello Avatar in LSL

default
{
state_entry()
{
llSay(0, “Hello, Avatar!”);
}
touch_start(integer total_number)
{
llSay(0, “Touched.”);
}
}

Or Hello World in Python:

print “hello world”

or in C :

#include

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
printf(“Hello, world!\n”);
return 0;
}

Those “tekkies” with their “wikis and their source code repositories are being every bit as creative when they write code as an SL resident making a house, or dress. And many of those “tekkies” take pride in how many people can use their code without being geeks. They take pride in making in improving it and making it better. They feel a sense of responsibility to give the people they give their code to something useful and good, that does what it was designed to do and does it well.

“Tekkies” being creative invented the web browser, they created the software behind the Second Life Herald and Second Life itself.. Obviously we all enjoy the fruits of “tekkie” labor.

But the “tekkies” aren’t some medievel guild or club. Anyone can be a “tekkie”.

For example: If you use the LSL wiki to learn how to write a script that does something you want it to do, you’re a “tekkie” You don’t have to do anything special to benefit from that wiki, just read.

“tekkies” aren’t some monolithic group of evildoers. they, WE are individuals with individual interests and goals.

I remember Optimus Prime when he was a starry eyed intern, spewing out coffee, which we would derisively throw in his face, laughing heartily as he short circuited and collapsed on the floor, spasming enthusiastically. And now he’s fighting decipticons and saving the world, what a year.

Its all true.

Ask Profoky.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b254/Tesahli/Prokofy.jpg