Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread VR Hacks
Michael wrote in part: > Is a transcript of this posted anywhere for those of us who could not > attend? I see someone has already posted a link to the full chat text transcript on the wiki. Gareth Nelson was kind enough to provide the voice recording of the meeting, which can be found here:

Re: [opensource-dev] Login response request/processing in 1.23 vsSnowglobe / 2.0

2010-04-14 Thread Philippe (Merov) Bossut
Hi Kitty, On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Kitty wrote: > Found a likely cause... > > Viewer 2.0 (and Snowglobe) isn't requesting a gzipped response from the > login server which causes the login reply to take much, much longer to > download than it does with 1.23. > > Is there any chance someone

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Joe Linden
For those watching without the benefit of a transcript or the actual words I said in the meeting yesterday, here was the rest of that quote: "* **we've had a lot of internal debate around cost/benefit of OS **... and we're fully committed to redoubling our commitment to make this a successful prog

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Rob Nelson
And yet, it does restrict GPL distribution rights. We've been over this already. And I'd like to see where the FSF OKed it, the only thing I can turn up on Google is Richard Stallman not being too happy about it. I already changed the viewer I used to be working on to Luna, but both the GPL inco

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Argent Stonecutter
I suggest you read up on how copyright law in the US actually works. You seem to be under the impression that the changes in 1989 when the US implemented most of the Berne Convention never happened. I'm not commenting on the validity of this unsupported notecard, just noting that you're mist

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Rob Nelson
I decided to read the transcript and it did not address any of my concerns. [12:21][Voice Transcript] Joe Linden: we've ha a lot of internal debate around cost/benefit of OS ^ That was all I needed to hear. Debate's effectively over. On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 09:27 -0700, Joe Linden wrote: > Rob,

Re: [opensource-dev] Snowglobe 2.0 trunk binaries available

2010-04-14 Thread Tayra Dagostino
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:49:03 -0700 "Philippe (Merov) Bossut" wrote: > Linux: > http://secondlife.com/developers/opensource/downloads/2010/trunk/3318/Snowglobe-i686-2.0.0.3318.tar.bz2 don't start... 2010-04-14T17:02:57Z INFO: LLError::NoClassInfo::createContext: Stencil Bits 8 2010-04-14T17:02:5

[opensource-dev] TPVp brownbag meeting transcript from 2010-04-13 (was: Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list)

2010-04-14 Thread Boroondas Gupte
On 04/14/2010 06:35 PM, Michael Dickson wrote: > Is a transcript of this posted anywhere for those of us who could not > attend? > https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/AW_Groupies/Chat_Logs/JoeLindenTPVBrownbag-2010-04-13 (Thanks Latha!) ___ Policies and

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Lance Corrimal
Joe, have a beer ;) or would you rather have a gallon of WD40? ;) Am Mittwoch 14 April 2010 schrieb Joe Linden: > Rob, > > I take it you weren't at the meeting yesterday? > > -- Joe > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Rob Nelson wrote: > > It's already reached a point where LL has told

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Michael Dickson
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 16:27 +, Joe Linden wrote: > Rob, > > I take it you weren't at the meeting yesterday? > > -- Joe Is a transcript of this posted anywhere for those of us who could not attend? Thanks! Mike ___ Policies and (un)subscribe in

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Tony Agudo
Joe, is there a transcript/voice recording of the meeting available? On Apr 14, 2010 12:27 PM, "Joe Linden" wrote: Rob, I take it you weren't at the meeting yesterday? -- Joe On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Rob Nelson wrote: > > It's already... ___

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Rob Nelson
Yes, I begin sleep at 6:00AM and frequently sleep until 2:30PM. On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 09:27 -0700, Joe Linden wrote: > Rob, > > I take it you weren't at the meeting yesterday? > > -- Joe > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Rob Nelson > wrote: > It's already reached a point where LL ha

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Joe Linden
Rob, I take it you weren't at the meeting yesterday? -- Joe On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Rob Nelson wrote: > It's already reached a point where LL has told us, to our faces, that > they are not going to change the policy, meaning our opinion doesn't > mean diddly to them. There's no use co

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Rob Nelson
It's already reached a point where LL has told us, to our faces, that they are not going to change the policy, meaning our opinion doesn't mean diddly to them. There's no use continuing to discussion, just as there's no use continuing TPV development. On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 07:52 -0500, Jonathan

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Lear Cale
Another point: A copyright means you can't copy the work. You are allowed to come up with the same idea yourself and arrive at a simiar result. It requires a patent to protect against that. Furthermore, DMCA applies only when the original work is *digitally* copied. It does *NOT* apply to a for

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Lear Cale
FYI, Whoever wrote this is ignorant of US copyright and trademark law. In the US (and most countries), you have an implicit copyright whenver you render an original work in any fixed medium. I.e., if you sing a song you made up, no implicit copyright, but if you record it or write it down, you do

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Jamey Fletcher
Lance Corrimal wrote: > ... is that guy out of his mind? Yes. See notes below. > You are reading this because you were listed in a lawsuit by Belial > Foulsbane and Scarlett Vielle. Somehow you are a victim of his False > DMCA claims, and his ongoing effort to manipulate LL into killing off >

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Soft Linden
I don't know the details on this, however it's definitely off topic for this list. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Lance Corrimal wrote: > Hey all, > > just got this notecard inworld: > > "Hello. > > You are reading this because you were listed in a lawsuit by Belial Foulsbane > and Scarlett Vi

Re: [opensource-dev] Ironpython (was: Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list)

2010-04-14 Thread Dzonatas Sol
Compare this list to here: http://lists.ironpython.com/pipermail/users-ironpython.com Although stated as a combined user/dev list and open to related DLR/CLR discussion...: http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com ... the signal to noise, on that mail-list, remains much more

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Robin Cornelius
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Ron Festa wrote: > I feel your frustration, however, this is the opensource-dev mailing list > not the snowglobe-dev mailing list. Both SnowGlobe and TPV's are open source > viewers based on Linden Lab's mainline viewer the only difference is > Snowglobe is distrib

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Dale Glass
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:52:02AM -0500, Jonathan Irvin wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > I'm requesting Linden Lab's response to this inquiry due to the recent > influx of new topic related...or should I say unrelated to the development > of the SnowGlobe viewer. Lately, when I open my email

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Lance Corrimal
the guy can kiss his "product" good bye anyways: http://is.gd/bsmy5 next emerald release diasables that "speedrezzing hack", so all he gets from his dmca spoof is loads of abuse reports for selling defective products. Am Mittwoch, 14. April 2010 15:31:11 schrieb Gareth Nelson: > I think the poi

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Gareth Nelson
I think the point was that SL has a lot of users with trigger-happy lawyers On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Ambrosia wrote: >> and what henri has is the same feature in a different implementation (100% >> viewer internally), so it's not as if you could use emerald and something >> sold >> or gi

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Ron Festa
I feel your frustration, however, this is the *opensource-dev* mailing list *not* the *snowglobe-dev* mailing list. Both SnowGlobe and TPV's are open source viewers based on Linden Lab's mainline viewer the only difference is Snowglobe is distributed by LL. Discussion on policies that effect open s

Re: [opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Dzonatas Sol
+1 I already trashed a few attempts to write an e-mail to try to say what you have. Jonathan Irvin wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > I'm requesting Linden Lab's response to this inquiry due to the recent > influx of new topic related...or should I say unrelated to the > development of the

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Ambrosia
> and what henri has is the same feature in a different implementation (100% > viewer internally), so it's not as if you could use emerald and something sold > or given away for free by henri INSTEAD of this guys script. > THIS IS NOT WORTH ANY KIND OF MONEY (since its sort of the whole point > of

[opensource-dev] Requesting Linden Response: Please move TPVP Topics to a different mailing list

2010-04-14 Thread Jonathan Irvin
To Whom It May Concern: I'm requesting Linden Lab's response to this inquiry due to the recent influx of new topic related...or should I say unrelated to the development of the SnowGlobe viewer. Lately, when I open my email, I get 5-10 different topics and responses daily to the recent changes fo

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Martin
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Ambrosia wrote: > He's supposedly going after rival products. > and the big problem is how he is defining "rival products" hes claiming copyright on any gesture In the form of dd 0 wait 1 dd 4 wait 1 dd 8 wait 1 .. dd 64 (or whatever the set normal draw distance

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Lance Corrimal
Am Mittwoch, 14. April 2010 14:39:26 schrieb Ambrosia: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 14:00, Carlo Wood wrote: > > This guy really filed a lawsuit. > > > > Such people exist, ... one of the reasons I REALLY don't want to work > > on a SL viewer when there is a TOS that says I'm responsible and > > lia

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Ambrosia
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 14:00, Carlo Wood wrote: > This guy really filed a lawsuit. > > Such people exist, ... one of the reasons I REALLY don't want to work > on a SL viewer when there is a TOS that says I'm responsible and > liable for any damages done as a result of using that viewer. > The la

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Carlo Wood
This guy really filed a lawsuit. Such people exist, ... one of the reasons I REALLY don't want to work on a SL viewer when there is a TOS that says I'm responsible and liable for any damages done as a result of using that viewer. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:28:55AM +0200, Lance Corrimal wrote: > H

Re: [opensource-dev] Viewers in the directory are being impersonated already

2010-04-14 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:30:24PM -0400, Robert Martin wrote: > Dusting off an old statement > > The 3PVp will be a semi joke until LL decides to put up a compile farm > and begin creating "signed builds". Even not using proxies and other > cloaking all somebody has to do is get the source for a

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Tateru Nino
I'm aware of the speed-rez stuff, because it's been discussed numerous times over the last five years. The earliest mention I can recall off the top of my head is a suggestion from Phoenix back in early 06. I've already read the complaint and docs and I'm working on an article on it. On 14/04/201

Re: [opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Jonathan Irvin
Lance, hey just FYI man...This is something you want to contact Linden Labs directly about, not post it to this mailing list. That being said, let me share with you a piece of wisdom from being in SL for 5 years. When you've seen it once, you've seen it a million times. People just like to targe

[opensource-dev] impending lawsuit?

2010-04-14 Thread Lance Corrimal
Hey all, just got this notecard inworld: "Hello. You are reading this because you were listed in a lawsuit by Belial Foulsbane and Scarlett Vielle. Somehow you are a victim of his False DMCA claims, and his ongoing effort to manipulate LL into killing off his competition for the "Emerald Sp