[sldev] adding support for a new input device to the SL viewer

[Negroponte J. Rabit]

You are very correct.  My submission to the feature request form was
made before the viewer was open-sourced, however.  Also, while it
may sound nice to have people hacking and distributing their own
customized versions of the viewer, there is a potential disaster
on Linden Labs hands if users began running untrusted, potentially
trojaned software to log into their Second Life account.

Bunny Brewster

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:50:00 -0400
<ashea at ups.com> wrote:

> I've been following this list for a few weeks now and I think some
> people have the wrong idea about open source. First, we don't need
> permission or approval of Linden Labs to make patches or add new
> features and we can totally rewrite any portions that we want to.
> Anyone can make changes and distribute their own version of the
> viewer. This hopefully will inspire competition in building "a better
> mouse trap". Linden is only involved if you want your ideas and
> patches included in their build. But if you have ideas that Linden
> doesn't want to use, then go ahead and incorporate them into your own
> build. This is the whole idea of open source. The open market will
> decide which build they want to use.
> 
> Anthony 
> 
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> [mailto:sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Negroponte J.
> Rabit
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: [sldev] adding support for a new input device to the SL
> viewer
> 
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:46:53 +0200
> Maurizio de Pascale <mdepascale at dii.unisi.it> wrote:
> 
> >> The possibilities are pretty endless, but my suggestion didn't get
> >> as
> many votes as I hoped it would. :)
> 
> Bunny Brewster
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