Controversy erupts over SpotON3D's patent claims

Competing OpenSim hosting companies are concerned that SpotON3D ‘s viewer plugin patent isn’t original, will hinder innovation, and that the company isn’t playing fair with the broader open source community.

Other developers, however, say that SpotON3D’s innovation can help energize OpenSim adoption — and the patent, if it is granted, may not be that burdensome to the community.

Kitely is a two-man, self-funded startup that currently has no revenues — it’s been hosting more than 900 regions for free for beta customers while it works to improve its on-demand technology. Meanwhile, SpotON3D has $300,000 in startup funding and 12 paid developers, according to co-founder Tessa Kinney-Johnson , and currently runs a little over 200 regions.

Kitely isn’t in direct competition with SpotON3D — it offers on-demand regions and allows customers to save copies of their regions locally via OAR files.SpotON3D operates a grid architecture with traditional always-on regions, and is a closed gate - Exports entire regions are limited. But a patent claim by SpotON3D successful, if large enough, may interfere with the development of Kitely.

SpotON3D chief competitors are InWorldz and AviNation, each more than four times the size of SpotON3D. However, the plugin viewer and the Facebook integration scheduled for September could attract new customers and allow the grid ahead of the competition.

“Embedded apps in a web page are very common, with a wide range of open source and proprietary libraries to assist in doing that as SpotOn3D have used,” said Austin Tate, director of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the  University of Edinburgh, in a comment . Tate is also known as Ai Austin in Second Life.

“The U.S., though, does tend to be more lax with initial granting of such patents which gives the lawyers a bit more to do,” he added.

According to Rosen, there are procedures that opponents of a particular patent may follow if the patent is granted, before it is granted, and even after it is granted, request the Patent Office reconsider the patent.

Council application – final report « Ahenobarbi's Blog

To view help for each command. Reminder plugin. This supybot plugin pulls reminder information from the website and sends messages to all council members to remind them about upcoming meeting.

What you can do in the webapp depends on your role. You can be guest or a registered user. Once you register administrators can give you administrator and council member roles.

As guest you can only view:

Once you register you can do everything a guest can and:

When administrator will give you a council member role you will be able to do everything a regular registered user can and:

As administrator you can manage users – give them new roles and take away old roles.

Bot has a separate list of commands:

I hope to command names are self-explanatory. In addition bot gets points, voting options and deadlines for each item on the site when you send # startmeeting and voting and voting option changes results when webapp # endmeeting.

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