Some OpenSim users have complained that closed grids — especially InWorlds, the largest closed grid of them all — do not contribute enough back to the community.
Today, InWorldz co-founder and CTO David Daeschler made a strong case that InWorldz does much more than market OpenSim effectively to newcomers.
(Though that, in and of itself, is a valuable service.)
In particular, over the past 12 months alone the grid has:
- reported bugs and donated bug fixes
- donated code that allows OpenSim to manage extremely large inventories by using the Cassandra “big data” platform
- made a $500 donation to help OSgrid recover and offered them a free and reliable asset database solution
- helped the military’s MOSES grid bring the PhysX physics engine to OpenSim
“We have actively worked in the background trying to help the entire metaverse in many different ways,” Daeschler wrote today. The full post is here and is entirely worth reading.
Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Email her at [email protected]. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.
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