[sldev] Re: SLDev Digest, Vol 21, Issue 22

[Gordon Wendt]

Umm, yes that's the Lindens who also provide the service so I'm
guessing that you aren't referring to them when talking generally
about the evils of mandatory viewers. If you're afraid of interests
getting in then you shouldn't even be using the official viewers what
with all those user created patches, all those features and bug fixes
requested by the community on the JIRA and of course these mailing
lists (which ironically your using to deride the techies after
publicly deriding this mailing list many times on your blog....
hypocrisy anyone?)

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Random Unsung
<ravenglassrentals at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Lindens drop down mandatory viewers all the time -- we don't get a
> choice as to whether we want Windlight (even the dumbed down settings are
> crippling or not) or whether we want "Showcase" or not or any number of new
> viewers. That is, sure, someone could go off and use an untrusted
> third-party viewer and entrust their financial transactions and password to
> it -- but, um, no thanks.
>
> Sooner or later, viewers become mandatory, and it's important not to allow
> special interests to creep into them to advantage this or that sectarian
> group at the expense of others.