[sldev] Re: Software Engineers Not A Democracy? Who Says?

[Random Unsung]

I should think that anyone who says "software engineering is not a democracy" and "patch or GTFO" might have earned some of the labels with the word "arrogant" that have been used to describe them on blogs. They are a living, walking example of the problem.

Software engineering *better be* a democracy when it affects people in a world who pay tier or else those people cannot be persuaded to remain in a project and keep paying for them to have a sandbox.

I often find a high-handed dismissal of non-engineer, non-coder participation in SL Dev and in certain AWG office hours, as if these issues are purely technical. They aren't. Under the guise of "technicality," these coders are trying to take over complex and diverse political, social, and economic issues that have profound consequences for people in this virtual world, their property, and even their real-life earnings.

I fail to see why any one of us with intellectual property, or a financial stake in Second Life, must be forced to cede absolute control over these aspects of our second lives to coders, especially arrogant coders, and especially coders who have a very, very sectarian and extremist copyleftist, freetard view of IP issues.

No one's RL gender should be disclosed within the SL domain. That's a TOS regulation. If it is not on the SL profile, it is not fair game for lists, forums, the official blog etc *regardless if the information is obtainable by Google witch-hunting on the Internet*. It's also immaterial to any discussion, what a RL gender is.

People who are not engineers and software programmers are also participating in this list. And what I find interesting is that some of those with the very strongest opinions who *are* programmers are not programmers *in these languages*, by their own admission, or who don't have knowledge or experience in VW engineering, by their own admission, and yet have highly emotional views on what LL should or shouldn't do.

Giglio's views of IP are indeed cavalier, as are others. They do not reflect the mainstream of views even within Linden Lab, let alone the general population.

Nothing about us/without us.

Random Unsung/Prokofy Neva
My alt name on here is my well-known alt, and isn't some disguise, but merely a wish to have all the prolific email from this list not go into my main account which is cluttered enough.




       
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