On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:10:10PM +0000, Gareth Nelson wrote: > In general, I have to agree with those who say that this will only > burden legit developers - griefers will just ignore the policy and > spoof the official viewer
+1 Especially the clear intend of Linden Lab to make being listed in the Third Party Directory mandatory, but also the fact that once you are listed you are vulnerable to being spoofed by all the REALLY bad guys out there, makes me believe that it is in anyone's interest to not be listed in the TPV directory and cross your fingers that nobody will so that it stays empty. In that case the ball is in LL's garden again with a lot less chance they will start banning your viewer because it's not listed. I don't believe that this whole TPV policy thing is doing ANYTHING except make the lives of honest developers harder. I am sure that everyone on this list that is trying to honestly create a nice viewer and make things Better will agree with me that so far all of this has only brought them frustration and they wished this never happened. At the same time, the Bad Guys will not care at ALL. They were ALREADY doing things that are reason for a ban. Not complying to the TPV policy doesn't increase their risk a bit, and they will just ignore it. After all, the only result of not following TPV policy is a termination of SL accounts. Imho, it is not possible that the existance of this TPV policy suddenly opens up the possibility to bring those Bad developers before court; it's impossible to make them responsible for what users do with their code. I'm not a lawyer, clearly, but something that comes to mind is the fact that copying movies is highly illegal, yet nobody even tried to sue the developers of azureus/vuze. -- Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> _______________________________________________ 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
