That is, can one make money with Open Cobalt?
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:17 AM, John Carlson <yottz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan, > > Any news if Open Cobalt supports auctions, banks, or ads yet? > > Thanks, > > John > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> And of course, for some time there has been Croquet >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project >> >> ... and its current manifestation >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt >> >> These are based on Dave Reed's 1978 MIT thesis and were first implemented >> about 10 years ago at Viewpoints. >> >> Besides allowing massively distributed computing without servers, the >> approach is interesting in just how widely it comprehends Internet sized >> systems. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Alan >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Casey Ransberger <casey.obrie...@gmail.com> >> *To:* Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:52 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text >> >> The next big thing probably won't be some version of Minecraft, even if >> Minecraft is really awesome. OTOH, you and your kids can prove me wrong >> today with Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition, which is free, and comes with >> _source code_. >> >> http://mojang.com/2013/02/minecraft-pi-edition-is-available-for-download/ >> >> </fanboy> >> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:55 PM, John Carlson <yottz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Miles wrote: >> > There's a pretty good argument to be made that what "works" are >> powerful building blocks that can be combined in lots of different ways; >> So the next big thing will be some version of minecraft? Or perhaps the >> older toontalk? Agentcubes? What is the right 3D metaphor? Does anyone >> have a comfortable metaphor? It would seem like if there was an open, >> federated MMO system that supported object lifecycles, we would have >> something. Do we have an "object web" yet, or are we stuck with text >> forever, with all the nasty security vunerabilities involved? Yes I agree >> that we lost something when we moved to the web. Perhaps we need to step >> away from the document model purely for security reasons. >> What's the alternative? Scratch and Alice? Storing/transmitting ASTs? >> Does our reliance on https/ssl/tls which is based on streams limit us? When >> are we going to stop making streams secure and start making secure network >> objects? Object-capability security anyone? >> Are we stuck with documents because they are the best thing for debugging? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Casey Ransberger >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> >> >
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