[opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

[Lance Corrimal]

Am Sunday 22 August 2010 schrieb L. Christopher Bird:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Jesse Barnett <jessesa at 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.