[opensource-dev] Request for comments about llSetAgentEnvironment / SVC-5520

[Morgaine]

Soft, you misread what was written.

I carefully worded the sentence containing the word "sociopath" to exclude
Lindens --- please note my words "*Outside of Lindens and their business
interests*".  The word "sociopath" was aimed specifically at the botnet
operators and criminal organizations who exploit innocent people through
exploits on their PCs, and well as covering griefers.  I would hope that you
too consider at least the criminals as "sociopaths", as I do.

The parts that applied to Lindens were the paragraph before and the
paragraph after, and the line about responsibility.  I believe that the
company has business motives for doing what it is doing in secret, and that
it is willing to sacrifice open source principles and community involvement
to achieve those business goals.  That's all.

Pointing out the security dangers here is the responsible thing to do.  I
hope you agree with that as well, and would encourage all critical comments
about security.  Unfortunately you've tied our hands by making that project
internal and secret.


Morgaine.






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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Soft Linden <soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Morgaine
> <morgaine.dinova at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Virtually nobody other than Lindens are "hellbent on binary plugins", and
> > Lindens are doing so in secret in order not to have to justify themselves
> to
> > the community.
>
> I don't know the details of this work. I do know that ascribing these
> kinds of motives instead of asking "why" questions is a good way to
> get yourself written off as a hurdle instead of a resource. That later
> rhetoric about "sociopaths" and some of the earlier comments make it
> clear that input is going to be unpleasant and ultimately
> counterproductive. If you read back over your message, could you see
> the outcome being a dev going out of the way to involve you in their
> work?
>
> Civil, objective discussion with well-backed positions would signal
> that the community's going to be a resource that can make a Linden
> more productive in his work. Where that's the case, they would be nuts
> not to go to the list as soon as possible. But colored as the list has
> been, I know I wouldn't even want to talk more than I had to about a
> Snowglobe-specific change. It would just get in the way of getting
> things done.
>
> I'm pretty sure you've also sat in on Q's office hours more than once.
> What did he say when you asked about plugin decisions there? I expect
> he'd have answered with something other than psychopathy and
> conspiracy.
>
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