[sldev] Re: Viewer forks (was: SLDev Digest, Vol 21, Issue 25)

[Aimee Walton]

(Can we remember to set a message title when posting please? Thanks :)

On 10 Sep 2008, at 03:45, Random Unsung wrote:

> The way to prevent something from becoming mandatory is to speak out  
> loudly and clearly when it is only "forked" or "voluntary" or  
> "optional". A viewer that has no SEARCH in it, or imposes CAMERA  
> CONTROLS is a viewer that has an ideology to it that begins to bleed  
> into other projects and it's important to say NO to these things NOW.

Following that logic we should all be extremely concerned and  
protesting the release of the SLim client, as it suggests that Linden  
Lab intend to remove the graphical world view from the standard viewer  
in favor of a text only client in future.

Aimee T.

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