Re: [mmox] Creating walled gardens considered harmful

Jon Watte <jwatte@gmail.com> Sun, 29 March 2009 23:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mmox] Creating walled gardens considered harmful
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Morgaine wrote:
> There are many parts to the puzzle, but participants need implement 
> only those parts of relevance to them.

I agree. However, that side-steps the problem a little bit. My feedback 
is that we should make the implementation as cheap as possible to get 
some end-user visible benefit for virtual world interoperability, so 
that we can get lots of worlds on board. Agreed?

Sincerely,

jw