On the Emerald Blog today, the team posted that they had made the decision to fold. Two reasons were given, Linden Labs' demands that three "key members" of the team be dismissed, and an attempted (unsucessful) takeover from within. They stated before closing, there will be one final version of Emerald released, "the viewer we’ve been working on for the past six months. It would be a shame to let the efforts of the developers who put so many unpaid hours into this project go to waste."
This is the opportunity for a fork project to develop and create a TPV version of snowstorm, which is what Linden Lab really wants. I am aware of a number of small projects underway now, and I wish them the best, the very best in their endeavors.
For you, the user, what this means is that there will not be any further releases of the Emerald Viewer after today. The existing releases will continue to operate until Linden Lab decides to terminate their access and end Emerald once and for all.
This virtual world is ever changing and must be, otherwise it will stagnate. This incredible environment will continue.
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7 hours ago
Thanks to Gemma Cleanslate for finding this.
ReplyDeleteI will continue using the current version of Emerald until such time as LL blocks it - and I hope they will not. It is simply the best viewer out there. I don't know if we will ever really know what happened here. I seriously doubt that LL "Killed" Emerald - hey have no motivation to do so.
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