[sldev] The criminalization of open source

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2007-12-17, at 22:18, Jason Giglio wrote:
> People who are still in a "game" mindset might expect Linden Lab to  
> "stop cheaters".  I think that's where some of this comes from.   
> Linden Lab has said in the past they aren't going to get into some  
> silly arms race.   They just need to stick to that and not waver,  
> if they want this to be taken seriously as an open platform.

And, in fact, they haven't gotten into a silly arms race.

All they've done is maintain a more or less even level of  
inconvenience, to make sure that it's clear to someone bypassing the  
honor system permissions that they're going outside the honor system,  
which is about all they can do.

If you poke the anthill you start getting bit by no-perm sculpty  
objects and people running copybot detectors that spam you 24/7. If  
you don't poke the anthill you don't get bit. The bites aren't more  
than an annoyance, but, damn, I for one can do without 'em.