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

[Katharine Berry]

> PHOX and Fractured are very close. All the way back when it was VLife and  
> PhoxSL. they were nearly identical. So i would almost bet that its a blitz  
> attack on the public. Fractured walks away. PHOX stays. Fractured and PHOX  
> still have control over the program cause PHOX is still committing code.  
> and as far as the licensing goes..... If PHOX is the developer of the  
> emkdu file( remember this is the bad file in the emerald viewer) and they  
> are still planning to use emkdu.... who is developing it? PHOX?

According to a blog post on blog.modularsystems.sl, which was subsequently pulled (cached: http://bit.ly/9OfxUd), Linden Lab has demanded that Emerald cease use of emkdu entirely.