I am personnally VERY PROUD of what LL did with this issue, i would have expected a faster response but we can't blame them too much since it happened over a weekend.
What the folks at Emerald did was plain wrong, they have no rights to use your computer to run their attacks. For all we know, they may have been doing that in the past at a smaller scale we'll never know. I strongly believe that LL should even review some part of the code in the viewers they propose as 3rd party viewer and they should have a team dedicated to monitor all of them in case this ever happen again. For my part, ill stay away from those viewer with the flavor of emerald, I cannot even trust the new people they got. There might be still people with bad intention behind it but that is my own opinion. I even believe that the people who were behind those attacks should be procecuted as it is prescribed by the law in the United States. Peoples should be making a class action against Modular systems, all user of Emerald could join it since they all were victims and they were forced to participate in a collective attack against one or many websites / service on the internet. -----Message d'origine----- From: AltairSythosMemo Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:38 PM To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Blocking viewers. On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:21:26 +0100 Tom Grimshaw <t...@streamsense.net> wrote: > The lab DO NOT have any right to determine what software they will > allow to connect to their SERVICE. are you joking? is THEIR service, on THEIR servers, done with THEIR software..... > Linden Lab have blocked Emerald due to a POLITICAL DISAGREEMENT with > their dev team. They haven't blocked it because of any fault with > the software itself, they're not protecting anyone - they're taking > pre-emptive action against a project because of some percieved danger > that might evolve. not only with team, but with code of emerald viewer too, way to copybot others creations, private data "statistically collected" and some licenses violations... _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
