Future developments

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The term "Metaverse" was coined by the writer, Neal Stephenson, in his sci-fi classic "Snow Crash" - a book that inspired a generation of developers to create 3D virtual environments. Second Life is only one such environment, there are many alternatives already, and more to comre.

The development of the Second Life toolset has been restricted by the size of Linden Labs. At the end of 2006 they employed a little over 100 people in total, and the development team would represent only a fraction of that number. The possibility of taking the Second Life software to Open Source had been the subject of much conjecture in 2006. Finally, on 8th January, 2007, Linden Labs made the client source code (called "the viewer") available under GNU General Public License v2.0