[sldev] Working Together on Sculpties (Re: VWR-1110)

[Dzonatas]

(bringing chat here since it seemed to die elsewhere)

RE: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1110

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 > Rob Linden 
<https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=Rob+Linden> - 
02/Aug/07 09:26 PM
 > We can't accept this patch into the mainline viewer without a signed 
contribution agreement on file. Could you send that in?

This is odd. I have a contract on file, but I never was notified that it 
would not be honored anymore. That would be the first message of the 
contrary. =(

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 > Qarl Linden 
<https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=Qarl+Linden> - 
07/Aug/07 03:24 PM
 > hey Dzonatas - how's life?
 >
 > a few lindens keep poking me and asking about this patch, whether we 
should apply it or not.
 >
 > i think you agree, the patch only works for very specific meshes 
right now (64x64 vertex meshes, laid in a grid) and so does NOT meet the 
90% criteria mentioned above.
 >
 > yes? no?

Qarl, considering that due to the contract not being honored above 
anymore, I'm not getting any checks from LL to do further work. That 
also means I don't have the money to buy models on turbosquid to test 
your ideal importer. A yes or no answer is an extremely terrible thing 
to ask because of this. (catch-22?)

I offered to do under the terms of the contract even if I don't get 
paid. That doesn't seem to be an option?

When a company pushed its own motives into an open source viewer 
(literally making it not Open Source... but its just source code), it 
seems like a severe problem to say to a company would accept open source 
work but than not communicate that entire open source projects are going 
to get dumped or overwritten by the companies own motives.

I fear that would happen here with sculptie importers. Last I heard, LL 
contracted someone else to do a sculptie importer. I was left wondering 
if that importer meets your 90% demand.  (Actually, I'm wondering if any 
importer has passed the 90% criteria, yet)

I do appreciate greater communication on this. It appears, however, in 
past attempts of communication that I was related to being a "waste of 
time" by LL employees. Yes, that got me upset considering how desperate 
I am to get something better than McD's. Working at Lindens Labs is a 
dream job for me, but when my four children ask me what I do for work, I 
have an option of telling them of being a "waste of time" or a dream 
job. Which one would your rather tell them? I think I rather die than 
work at McD's. What father wouldn't?

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