They may be waiting to make a formal announcement before they pull the plug on the viewer- didn't they make a policy of not allowing any viewer to connect that wasn't on the list? I think so-
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Gareth Nelson" <gar...@garethnelson.com> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 2:50 PM To: "Lance Corrimal" <lance.corri...@eregion.de> Cc: <opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com> Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything? > As they shouldn't be! > Although one does wonder whether users are now at risk of being banned > if they keep using it > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Lance Corrimal > <lance.corri...@eregion.de> wrote: >> Am Sunday 22 August 2010 schrieb L. Christopher Bird: >>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Jesse Barnett <jess...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> > Ignoring this and giving the all clear with no other action taken >>> > on the part of Linden Lab will instead demonstrate that the TPV >>> > is a worthless scrap of paper. >>> >>> Correction, it only exist on paper if printed. The proper phrase is >>> "a worthless configuration of pixels" >>> >>> The TPVP makes it clear what the consequences are for breaking the >>> policy. 8c says: >>> >>> "If a Third-Party Viewer or your use or distribution of it violates >>> this Policy or any Linden Lab policy, your permission to access >>> Second Life using the Third-Party Viewer shall terminate >>> automatically. You acknowledge and agree that we may require you >>> to stop using or distributing a Third-Party Viewer for accessing >>> Second Life if we determine that there is a violation." >>> >>> So either the lab will enforce this, or they will say "Well you are >>> so popular you can screw around all you want". Is Emerald the >>> viewer "too big to fail"? >>> >>> -- ZenMondo >> >> I just looked and emerald's not in the tpv directory anymore. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > > -- > “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for > everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - > Printcrime by Cory Doctrow > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > _______________________________________________ > 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
