[opensource-dev] oh give me a break

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2010-03-14, at 14:09, Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote:
> What's frustrating about this for many of the Lindens is that we as  
> an organization pushed hard -- and Merov in particular worked nights  
> and weekends -- to get the Snowglobe source out on the same day that  
> beta was released, rather than waiting for our usual export process  
> to work itself out while we figure out how to make a new source  
> control system (mercurial) work for export.
>
> We actually believed we were doing something the community would  
> really appreciate -- getting the source out there the same day as  
> beta. And yet somehow that became something bad. People keep  
> repeating that "it's closed source".

I think there was some confusion about the release of Snowglobe,  
whether it was effectively a complete Viewer 2.0 release, or whether  
the new UI was proprietary and Snowglobe 2.0 was just some non- 
proprietary part of it. I think most of the confusion and bad feeling  
about the Snowglobe 2.0 release was due to LL missing this confusion  
and therefore not reacting in a timely manner to clear it up.