Your credentials are very much up for discussion if you engage in here. 
Firstly, you do not link to your sources where you post your binary, that is in 
the alternate viewer directory. A posting here in the mailing list is not 
sufficient. As such you are violating GPL. You are also violating 
redistribution licenses by distributing the vivox voice components in the same 
place. But that's not what this whole thing is about.

As for the points you brought up, I'm not the one supposed to answer anything 
in regards of legal status, registration, permanent bans, newly created 
accounts etc. of Modularsystems and their key developers. I wrote what is 
publically available information. As this is limited I asked the question here 
about this because I do not know the details and I'd like to get an answer how 
this is possible and why permanently banned accounts can circumvent that ban by 
just creating new avatars. 

The ToS violations and bans are verifyable by the very own statement of 
JCool/Fractured, also the acknowledgment of the malicious Onyx viewer: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRbV9SIbdCA

Again, these are facts people should be aware of. Henri raised a legitimate 
qestion about creation of a blacklist of known malicious viewers, instead of 
relying on FUD spread by LL about the validity of listings in the viewer 
directory. Everyone can list a viewer here, self certify, and residents believe 
this viewer is legitimate. Which is nothing but wrong. LL has neither the 
resources nor capacity to verify every single viewer entry.

In addition they also stated clearly that the Viewer Directory is meant as a 
marketing tool for those who need the publicity it may create. What I think it 
only creates is a false sense of security, and it will be only a question of 
time until a malicious project will be listed, and be it for the LULZ of some 
script kiddie.

I have nothing against you personally, but I have serious concerns that made me 
stopping developing viewers. Even though they never had any malicious features 
at all.

Boy

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brandon Husbands 
  To: Boy Lane 
  Cc: Discrete Dreamscape ; opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com 
  Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 4:29 PM
  Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Viewer blacklist to replace the TPV


  My credentials are not up for discussion. Most in Second Life are well aware 
of who I am and what I stand for. Additionally most creditable and active 
community members know my contributions and projects. Though i could be 
mistaken in the extent to which this information travels. If I am wrong in my 
assumption then perhaps we can use a different forum or venue to discuss these 
things.

  Now on to your questions let us take a look at what you are saying and 
implying.

  1 The company.
  Please show me what Government databases you looked in that also covers DBAs 
and assumed operating names, You place accusations here without proper proof 
nor justification. 

  2. The bans you mention.
  As far as I know, Linden Labs does not discuss with anyone outside of its 
company and the people which they take action upon the conditions relevant 
information regarding disciplinary actions and bans. So unless you are a Linden 
or have been one in the past i Highly doubt that the information is truly 
factual.

  3. Are you accusing Linden Labs of pandering to the almighty dollar instead 
of standing up for the company integrity on their own list? Sir, that is a huge 
accusation. I ask again where is your factual information that has brought you 
to this conclusion? I would honestly say that this is indeed not a true thing 
you state and is borderline slander against the very company which you 
supposedly are a third party contribute for. 

  4. The toxic viewer source is posted. If you care to look at it here is the 
link. 
  https://dcs.sourcerepo.com/dcs/tox_view/ feel free to look at it and take 
what ever changes you see that you like. Be warry as its just a general repo 
for my dir i work in.  The Voice component is not included in the installer 
btw. Furthermore the Toxic Viewer is no longer in active development as it was 
something that was asked of me to do by my wife. And trust me you do not wanna 
go there. Youll just have to trust me on that. So in all honesty its a null 
point. 

  Now on to my own conclusions regarding your communications.
  I really do not have much more to say to you in this subject. But I will 
offer some advice in regards to point 3. As I tell my kids. "You do not *** 
where you eat and you do not bite the hand which feeds you. Now its not my 
place to parent you nor is it my place to tell you what to do.. I only offer 
this advice as a human being that is concerned with the direction this 
discussion is going.

  So in a nutshell I do not believe and will safely assume that no one on this 
list thinks that this is a proper forum for this type of accusation/discussion. 
May i give you one more piece of advise. Have you tried the proper channels for 
this type of inquisition? If I am not mistaken the url is 
support.secondlife.com. Once your on that page you can select new ticket/issue. 
That would probably be the best avanue to question these things. On a side note 
if you need assistance filing a ticket I would be more than happy to assist.

  Dim.


  On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Boy Lane <boy.l...@yahoo.com> wrote:

    Sorry, seems I have to correct myself. Mr. Brandon Husbands seems to be 
Dimentox Travanti. Creator of the "Toxic Viewer". A project that violates GPL 
by not providing sources as well as distributing non-redistributable components 
such as the Vivox voice packages.

    This adds very well to your credibility Mr. Brandon Husbands :).


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Boy Lane 
      To: Brandon Husbands ; Discrete Dreamscape 
      Cc: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com 
      Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:57 PM
      Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Viewer blacklist to replace the TPV


      I don't know who you are Mr. Brandon Husbands, you are certainly not a 
viewer developer but a fly-by-night who want's to add some oil to the drama 
fire. It does not really matter.

      I stated facts here, not flames.

      Modularsytems is a "company" with a legal status we dont't know, created 
and owned by a person with permanently banned accounts due to ToS violations.

      Modularsystems is registered as this entity in the viewer directory.

      Modularsystems develops and uses malicious viewers, namely "Onyx", with 
several other malicious projects done by key developers such as Fractured, 
Phox, Skills or Cryo. All who had their accounts permanently banned for ToS 
violations.

      I asked a legitimate question to LL, to repeat it once again: How can for 
repeated ToS violations permanently banned people just circumvent that ban by 
creating new accounts as many of the Emerald developers did? Is it money spent 
for SL that counts rather than ToS?

      As you haven't read my posting, rather add irrelevant accusations in your 
own posting, Mr. Brandon Husband, that are supposedly to confuse the reader and 
discredit legitimate questions, lI can only conclude you are the troll here.

      Boy





        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Brandon Husbands 
        To: Discrete Dreamscape 
        Cc: Boy Lane ; opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com 
        Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:55 PM
        Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Viewer blacklist to replace the TPV


        I do not add much to the list.. But I will say... Mr lane, what ever 
your problem is with Emerald... You should probably let it go.  This blatant 
flaming and trolling does not help the open source community. Your actions and 
flames are actually a hindrance to the community as a whole. You see i say 
community as we typically work together to make things better etc. 

        It Seems you mostly wish to sabotage and wreck havoc. It is counter 
productive and plain rude. 
        SO i must request... Either take this offline directloy with the people 
you have a problem with or quit posting this crap as I do not want to have to 
read it. So as they say either *** or get off the pot.... So either become a 
active positive contributing member of this community or go away. I am quite 
fed up with the Trolls and will no longer personally tolerate it. So please go 
stroke your ego else where and lets get back to discussing code and things that 
actually matter to us besides your grievance against emerald.

        Dim.



        On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Discrete Dreamscape 
<discrete.dreamsc...@gmail.com> wrote:

          I'd like to remark that the information you found is just the data of 
the ModularSystems website, and all of the other viewer directory listings look 
about the same as Emerald's. The actual real-life name(s) of people involved 
aren't required to be publicly viewable, but Linden Lab does have them. Also, 
consider the possibility that .sl was chosen as a domain because it could be an 
abbreviation for SecondLife. Cute, eh? 


          I seriously doubt anyone with malicious intent is going to bother 
trying to register their viewer in the directory. 



          On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Boy Lane <boy.l...@yahoo.com> wrote:

            We certainly should follow the bright example of Emerald / 
Modularsystems,
            where you Discrete are a member of. A pseudo company set up and 
owned
            by known banned griefer JCool aka who revived his banned account(s) 
under
            the names of Fractured Crystal/Fractured Modularsystems.

            Back to their registration. JCool set up Modularsystems. A mailbox 
company
            with the following contact details:

            http://modularsystems.sl/
            P.O. Box 5702
            West Columbia, South Carolina 29171-5702
            United States
            administra...@modularsystems.sl

            That is an untraceable anonymized entity without any name attached 
to it and
            unknown legal status, registered with a domain name in Sierra 
Leone, a
            country
            that does not even have a WHOIS.

            This information was used to register and self-certify Emerald in 
the Viewer
            Directory.

            As I as a legally uniformed hobby programmer without commercial 
interest can
            evaluate this situation and validity of the Emerald listing, it is 
meant to
            circumvent
            any means of the viewer directory to hold a developer accountable 
for their
            viewers. It is also meant to avoid any possible litigation from LL 
in case
            indeed
            some malicious code may be found in their viewer(s). Besides 
Emerald,
            Modularsystems
            also develops and uses a malicious viewer named "Onyx" that is in 
clear
            violation of
            ToS/TPV.

            So no, Discrete, all these things completely contradict your 
argument. As
            shown a
            listing in Lindens viewer directory doesn't add a single piece of 
safety or
            security. To
            look for a legitimate viewer the Alternate Viewer list in the 
community
            edited SL Wiki
            is a better place to, for the simple reason malicious clients may 
not easily
            slip in as
            this is possible with self-certification. A blacklist is a good 
thing and
            could at least
            complement Viewer Directory and Alternate Viewers list. But of 
course it
            would
            include most of the malicious viewer from the key developers behind
            Modularsystems
            which obviously you try to avoid.

            Additional question to Linden Lab: How can for repeated ToS 
violations
            permanently
            banned people just circumvent that ban by creating new accounts as 
many of
            the
            Emerald developers did? Is it money spent for SL that counts rather 
than
            ToS?

            Boy

            ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:39:16 -0400
            > From: Discrete Dreamscape <discrete.dreamsc...@gmail.com>
            > Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Viewer blacklist to replace the TPV
            > directory ?
            > To: Tigro Spottystripes <tigrospottystri...@gmail.com>
            > Cc: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
            > Message-ID:
            > <g2nc38195a91004291339p41f404edgfe05a593c813c...@mail.gmail.com>
            > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
            >
            > This discussion seems to have been created with misleading 
intentions.
            >
            > Because some TPV creators don't want to reveal any personal 
information
            > about themselves, they can't be posted on the TPV directory, and 
because
            > of
            > this, it's understandable they might view the directory as 
unfair. But,
            > this
            > doesn't strike me as a valid reason to criticize the list.
            >
            > It's certainly valid to say that the viewers on the list are not
            > absolutely
            > trustworthy unless a full code audit is done, but even then, do 
you really
            > know that what's in the code is the same as what's in the binary? 
Isn't
            > there a limit to what LL can do, given a lack of resources to 
perform such
            > audits, especially when what you download requires trust that 
it's the
            > same
            > as what they've audited?
            >
            > But really, trust is supposed to be provided by the fact that the 
viewer
            > has
            > indeed registered using real-life contact information, because 
who would
            > give such a thing knowing they could be held liable if they 
indeed decided
            > to include malicious code? In general, there is no way to certify 
purity
            > here, you can only provide a level of trust as a guideline. You 
can't rely
            > on babysitting the users, because LL isn't going to compile every 
third
            > party's code and release the binaries themselves.
            >
            > In this regard, you may begin to argue that indeed, a blacklist 
would
            > better
            > serve users. I argue that this is exactly the opposite. You may 
be able to
            > pick out which viewers are explicitly untrusted, but you make no
            > statements
            > about the trustworthiness of any others. In this situation, a 
user is left
            > to choose between either a viewer which is in the grey about its 
status,
            > or
            > an official Linden viewer. This point is key, as far less 
warranty is
            > provided for users that they won't be banned for using a third 
party
            > viewer.
            > I suspect that in this case, many would simply give up and use the
            > official
            > client rather than risk their business, etc.
            >
            > If you want to provide a system where users can trust the clients 
they
            > use,
            > it seems like our current one is decent enough. In any case, a 
blacklist
            > doesn't appear to be any safer.
            >
            > Discrete
            >


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