An interview with Open Life's Steve Sima

by Tateru Nino on Feb 12th 2008 11:30PM

The Metaverse Journal's Lowell Cremorne landed an interview with Steve Sima (aka Sakai Openlife), the founder of Australian-based Open Life grid - which, we note, is still apparently not quite working for new registrations - certainly, we've had no luck here - you can register, but not actually log in with it.

Open Life currently operates on Open Simulator 0.5. Sima's plans involve full offline content creation (in fact, you can get a downloadable simulator from the website - though we don't believe the means exist to readily send that data anywhere as yet), and he is hotly anticipating the new viewer from RealXTend.

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Tags: lowell-cremorne, metaverse-journal, open-life, open-simulator, realxtend, sakai-openlife, second-life, steve-sima

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More sad pity hype on things that doesn't work greatly as LL's anyway.

The whole open source non-sense that LibSL created are irrational and ridiculous, built on fantasy hope for entrepreneurs to breathes on.

I shall says nasty things about any open sources because it's illogical to start bragging about it with fancy website that pretty much does nothing while their main product doesn't do anything to work yet! Best to keep on testing till it actually works better than LL's, starting off too soon is immature in any form of business.

Still trying to wonder how old are these silly unskilled entrepreneurs are.... (not that I care anyway.)

Nacon - How totally uninformed!

First of all, OpenLifeGrid is not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes or making promise they dont intend to keep. Everyone involved in the project is fully aware that the system very experimental. There are no illusions that this is immediately better than SL. However, that said, progress is being made from at least 3 separate international groups simultaneously. All have full time developers and all are dedicated to accomplishing something that Second Life seems to have forgotten. I have no doubt that by this time next year, the scene will be painted with very different brushes.

Also, this project doesn't need LibSL. Since Linden Labs fully endorses the open source movement and offered the source code of the viewer to the world (and Philip promised the serve source code was coming too) I don't see where you have any legitimate gripe or even statement?

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Yep a nice positive thing to write nacon lol
if people don’t try how will we know and openlifegrid and others are up and running yes its buggy and stuff is being added all the time to give more features but then you have made enough comments in the past how well SL works oh no you haven't have you! (as I did a Google on your Nakon name).

I’m just saying how it has its issues is the same as you’ve said about a product that been running a lot longer and had all these issues in the beginning and continually has ongoing issues the nature of the beast I suppose.

competition is healthy if it doesn’t work those that have invested time and any money lose if it works see the improvements it will make to all online worlds and how many millions of users it will clean up a lot off issues as they have competition so to say negative things and your comments about the immature business is laughable its open source a new direction not radical maybe not having one company controlling all the code will make things a bit better as the one you are using as a role model has fault and security issues one after the other and I’m afraid in business you take risks sometimes you win sometimes you lose so whose being immature now.