[opensource-dev] oh give me a break

[Maya Remblai]

Soft Linden wrote:
> Who? There's a non-participant who showed up to troll, and Carlos who
> says he wishes things were different so he could learn and experiment
> more.
>
> But - even if the list were swarming with looters itching to violate
> others' rights, how would the app store solution you push be better
> for stopping copying? Closing the source wouldn't help for the reasons
> I gave in my first reply. How does closing source and adding yet
> another API and distribution model make copying harder?

Exactly. The people that say open source is the root of all theft are 
not only ignoring the fact that theft happens and has been happening 
regardless of open source availability, but they're also ignoring the 
importance of open source viewers. To those people, as an example, I say 
have a look at the JIRA, at the number of people who have had seizures 
or otherwise become ill from using Viewer 2.0. Those people MUST use a 
third party viewer once 2.0 goes standard, or leave SL forever. Even if 
you overlook the ethical and moral problems of taking that option away 
from them, doing so would mean a considerable loss of income for content 
creators and LL. And not just because those people wouldn't be there 
buying things anymore. They also wouldn't be creating, and the related 
schools, hospitals, and other non-profits the LL has been trying to 
attract will pull out.

Maya