I agree that there should be some sort of requirement in order to develop and
distribute a 3rd party client. However that being said, who is in charge of
coming up with this requirement? Code signing, Code review, whatever the case,
who would be the ones reviewing the code? LL or the other developers? Does LL
have the time and manpower to test, review, and judge each proposed client
individually?
Does this registration apply to clients that are developed for personal use? or
for the use of a small company?
I agree with a previous post that yes the tools available for content theft and
griefing have made the situation worse. But, also the fact that expendable
accounts are readily accessable has fueled this fire with jet fuel.
If I want to make a client to use for my company i have to register submit my
client to the world at large... but if i want to create a billion accounts on
my own website all i need to do is crash the grid a few hundred times and steal
everyones content then ask for the RegAPI? Someone please explain this as it
makes no sense.
Back on topic. Linden Lab offered the source Open for all. And now that All
have take that source and done more with it than they could have ever imagined
Linden Lab is trying to limit the openess of this source. After taking another
moment to review yet again the GPL and FLOSS documentation on Linden Labs own
site, it would appear that the only viable solution available to LL is to close
the source, remove the GPL, and rewrite the server code. Why the rewrite of the
server code? Because they have already given us the GPL source code. Which
intitles us to COPY, MODIFY AND DISTRIBUTE our code however we like. Take the
source create a client that can kill people in real life...(not possible... for
dramatization) and there is ABSOLUTELY nothing LL can do about it. The code is
open.
I dont agree that just anyone with a connection to the internet should be
allowed to craft a client and start passing it out. However i dont agree either
that we as developers should be forced to register and promise not to do evil
things. Doing evil things helps find exploits. If we are criminals (or being
looked at as such) then call us out on it. You ban people for nothing with out
even investigating the abuse reports. but now you want us to register in order
to do what you wanted us to? What was Second Lifes little catch phrase...
"Second Life- Our world your Segregation"
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