[Opensim-dev] Having struggled with the privs inherited from SL I wish to object.

2014-03-25 Thread Jim Williams
I don't really care much what controls are allowed the creator, but I care a whole lot about the defaults. My speech is not free if I have to tell you it is free. I think that any privs set to default to restricting copying are both evil and wrong -- especially those involved in scripting, since

Re: [Opensim-dev] Having struggled with the privs inherited from SL I wish to object.

2014-03-25 Thread R.Gunther
Uhmm, or you type it wrong or you think wrong. default stuff must have no perms. so the owner decide what transfer or copy perms need to be set. if it need to be set. Set everything default to full perms is a killer and very wrong. On 2014-03-25 15:23, Jim Williams wrote: I don't really care mu

Re: [Opensim-dev] Having struggled with the privs inherited from SL I wish to object.

2014-03-25 Thread Jim Williams
No...Clearly default ought to be no restrictions. This is a simple matter of freedom of speech. If I have to tell you you are free to repeat my speech then I am not free. My speech is restricted. If someone wants to charge for receiving their speech it is fine with me, as long as I am not encum

Re: [Opensim-dev] Having struggled with the privs inherited from SL I wish to object.

2014-03-25 Thread Dahlia Trimble
You're free to change your permissions as you would like them to be. Nobody is restricting your freedom. If the defaults were changed for everyone just to suit your convenience, then others would be inconvenienced. If the permission system doesn't suit your needs, you're also free to use other soft

Re: [Opensim-dev] Having struggled with the privs inherited from SL I wish to object.

2014-03-25 Thread Jim Williams
Time for another fork? On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Dahlia Trimble wrote: > You're free to change your permissions as you would like them to be. > Nobody is restricting your freedom. If the defaults were changed for > everyone just to suit your convenience, then others would be > inconvenien

Re: [Opensim-dev] Having struggled with the privs inherited from SL I wish to object.

2014-03-25 Thread Frank Nichols
You are certainly free to fork if you want to - personally I think it is a fairly silly reason to fork, and doubt you will find enough people to support a fork for that reason alone. Especially since I am fairly certain that there is at least one client that will let you set what you want the defau