Soft Linden said:
"Content theft, griefing and resource abuse have been
long-term problems."
I've been a lurker here but are you KIDDING ME? When Linden Labs open
sourced Second Life, they were right along side us saying to
proprietary content developers YOU CANNOT PROTECT YOUR CONTENT.
Has that
> "content theft is inevitable, let's not do anything about it". Doors can be
> lock picked, that's not a reason for me to leave my door wide open.
>
>
> On 14 March 2010 23:04, New Hax wrote:
>
>> On 3/14/10, Marine Kelley wrote:
>> >
able to protect scripts
either when you go to someone else's sim, they can take your code
then. so I say dont bother.
eventually once everything is opened people will get over the idea of
'intellectual property' like a sickness.
On 3/14/10, Lawson English wrote:
> New Hax wrote:
ere, right ?
>
> On 14 March 2010 23:27, New Hax wrote:
>
>> there shouldn't be. if SL is to be open, and really open source, then
>> the scripts on it should be GPL as well. But it's different because
>> scripts CAN be protected FOR NOW but blobs of binary and gr
ches need to be dug. The ditch-digger can
> be changed out, but that doesn't change the fact that even if you get a
> new digger, you still have a ditch when you're done.
>
> OSS/Free Software and Proprietary software are the diggers; they're not
> the ditch itself.
oninan DRM. That was what i hoped the spirit of Open
source SL would be. but i guess im wrong.
On 3/14/10, Glen Canaday wrote:
> Then what are you doing here?
>
> On 03/14/2010 06:32 PM, New Hax wrote:
>> I know better than to try to get rich off of selling ones and zeroes.
>&
agree to disagree yea but then your days are numbered in SL. If the
project forks then there will be a VW without all these restrictions
and lindens threatening people for asking them to keep their promises?
On 3/14/10, New Hax wrote:
> I want a grid where people can have the freedom to deve
were truly open.
On 3/14/10, New Hax wrote:
> agree to disagree yea but then your days are numbered in SL. If the
> project forks then there will be a VW without all these restrictions
> and lindens threatening people for asking them to keep their promises?
>
> On 3/14/10, New Hax
On 3/14/10, Carlo Wood wrote:
>
> Imho, SL would have have had better products if everything
> had been free and open (no permission system). Then one could
> learn from others and improve things, build upon the experience
> and work of others, and nobody would make money of it or have
> to be afr
