Sorry but it is their service and they do have that right. They can block you personally if they wanted to because they are providing you with a service and they don't have to. Most people forget that. They don't actually need any reason at all to stop providing you with service. If they chose to block certain viewers because they want to force people to use approved viewers then they have that right. I am not talking about what they should do I am talking about what they have the right to do. Honestly if they wanted to they could block any non-official viewer and require everyone use their viewer. its just like any service it is up to them on what they feel is beneficial to the service. As i said previously they are not preventing you from using that viewer they are just preventing you from using that viewer on THEIR service is all. There are tons of more open grids you can chose from to use your viewer if you chose too. I think most people are spoiled by the fact that they have been given a choice by linden labs. But thats how humanity works you give a little they want more because they always devalue what they have.
Emerald is a perfect example of that. Everyone is upset and mad at linden for banning Emerald but no body cared what the developers of Emerald were doing before it effected them directly. I wont go into a flame war over one of my favorite viewers but I just wanted to make that point. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Tom Grimshaw <t...@streamsense.net> wrote: > On 08/09/2010 22:46, Marc Adored wrote: >> >> On another not they have every right to police who and what is >> connecting to their service > > No, given that the data that the viewer is sending is identical, they have > no right to do that whatsoever. The software I choose to use on my PC is > entirely my choice. > > I'll continue to use my own viewer that i've forked from Emerald a while > back - this change doesn't affect me - but it does reflect extremely poorly > on the lab and their ethics. > > ~T > > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges