Controversy erupts over SpotON3D’s patent claims – Hypergrid Business

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. The patent’s opponents include Kitely, an OpenSim hosting company with a Web-based...