Some months back, the makers of voicechat tech Vivox, who are the system SL uses for voice chat in world, made their services available to opensim grids in general. My understanding is they did this because they recognized that some other voicechat company could come along in their absence and sew up the market for voicechat on opensim grids instead of them, and they wanted to preempt that. Contrast that now to Havoc, who seem to think that only SL matters. My guess is that they think opensim will be irrelevant forever, and that the future is in SL alone. They will very likely regret that decision in a year or two. Particularly if opensim develop their own, better physics system that is open-source. They COULD, perhaps, launch a Kickstarter program to pay for it, say. I bet they could raise tons of money fast from people who want a GOOD vehicle physics system on opensim that compares to or surpasses the one by Havoc, and is open-source, just to get themselves AWAY from this sort of lunacy.
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