[opensource-dev] FAQ posted for Third Party Viewer Policy

Carlo Wood carlo at alinoe.com
Mon Mar 1 05:14:03 PST 2010


On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:15:28PM -0500, Maggie Leber (sl: Maggie Darwin)  wrote:
> There is already at least one viewer developer who is also selling a
> product claiming to identify (by some secret proprietary means)
> avatars running "bad" viewers and ban them.

Scenario:

Newbie visits Second life.
Newbie tries out a few viewers to see which he likes best, and settles with Snowglobe.
Newbie is banned from all those places that his new friends say have good shops.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>

PS For those who didn't read about this before: that is because once detected,
   your account name is added to a central database, and it doesn't matter
   anymore what viewer you are using.


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