Chris Car

A few blog posts ago, I have been thinking about Second Life. My basic thought was - and I haven’t been thinking deeper - that it would be nice if the Second Life server software is free, so everyone could install a server by its own and connect it together with the other people’s server. This would form a decentralized Second Life. Or a more radical thought would be that the Second Life client software is the server as well and Second Life is a peer to peer system. Well, there is actually an ambitious project going on named The Croquet Project which seems to be a collaborative 3D space in a peer to peer fashion. Anyways, it is not yet at the level of Second Life, but I should keep an eye on it.

But someone spent some energy on thinking of how Second Life could work in the near future, on a decentralized peer to peer model, implemented in open source software, letting the Lindens make money by providing something like a DNS for Second Life.

Read the article here (you have to scroll down a bit though).