[sldev] 3rd party viewer policy post on blogs.secondlife.com

[Anders Arnholm]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:12:17PM -0400, Zabb65 wrote:
> I apologize for my originally harsh tone. I'm rather upset with how this is
> playing out. Emerald has nothing to do with the other two items listed
> for functionality that is at odds with their CS and/or ToS, and I
> don't support the other two items in any way.
> 
> The quote from the email is as follows:
> "In the past we have been happy to allow development to proceed on all
> viewer projects, but recently some functionality has been developed
> that is at odds with our Community Standards and Terms of Service. 
> Some of this functionality includes the ability to encrypt chat, copy
> content in violation of the creator’s intent, and collect user data
> without clear disclosure.  To help our residents and viewer
> developers, we are creating a viewer registry that will allow
> developers to register viewers with us that comply with our guidelines
> and Terms of Service.  Viewers that do not comply may not be
> registered."

If encryptions is banned LL can give up the idea of being accepted as a
tool for serius work. Any work done for my company or a client of it
have to be protected from interception by a thirdparty listener. This
includes Linden Labs.

For example in a public company there is laws requieing that information
that could be used my the market are not published just to some people,
it have to be given to the public in a controlled and tracabe way. Talk
about new pruducts, new clients. All fall into this category. I hope
this idea is droped really soon.




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