On 11/04/2010 1:06 AM, Gareth Nelson wrote:
>> Not that the Lab actually needs anything resembling the TPVP to successfully
>> take legal action against someone making pernicious viewers available or
>> creating them for their own use.
>>
> I can use telnet to break into various TCP-based se
Sometimes it's useful to take a large parallel jump as a way of exploring an
issue. This one just hit me as a direct parallel (riffing on Gareth's idea
below): Is it possible to hold a web browser manufacturer responsible as a
tool to breach security and steal credit card numbers, perform denial of
> Not that the Lab actually needs anything resembling the TPVP to successfully
> take legal action against someone making pernicious viewers available or
> creating them for their own use.
I can use telnet to break into various TCP-based servers, does that
make the authors of my telnet client liab
If you're a developer who is also a user, it'd really be a second-party
viewer wouldn't it?
Technically, isn't the distinction actually between a viewer
/distributor/ (one who makes source code and/or binaries available to
others, whether or not they're /modifying it/) and a user (someone who
uses
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Aleric Inglewood
This seems to coincide with my remarks added to
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Robin_Cornelius/tvp_mods
where I point out that the mixture of developer and user just
doesn't work (if only because it requires a *different* definition
of "Third-Pary Viewer"). However, m
I agree with this outline, it makes far more sense. However I did want
to point out this one minor detail:
Nicholaz Beresford wrote:
> - instruct that there is no end user support for problems arising when
> using a TPV
>
I assume you meant problems arising *because* of using a TPV. A user ha
On 2010-04-09, at 14:17, Nicholaz Beresford wrote:
> I won't attend the meeting, but here are a few pennies worth of
> suggestions (they would be too detailed and complex to convey in a
> meeting anyway).
[...]
I can't attend, because scheduling, firewalls, and voice are too great
a hurdle, but
I won't attend the meeting, but here are a few pennies worth of
suggestions (they would be too detailed and complex to convey in a
meeting anyway).
First of all, I believe the current TPV is broken beyond repair. The
main reason is that responsibilities for users, developers and viewer
dictio
