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

[Lawson English]

Morgaine wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla at lindenlab.com 
> <mailto:robla at lindenlab.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     If this community demonstrates an ability to engage the wider
>     community with a thoughtful dialog, that will hold a lot of sway. 
>     Not merely by stating your opinion, but by engaging others holding
>     opposing views.
>
>
>
> "/*If this community demonstrates an ability to engage the wider 
> community*/ ..." --- Far more importantly, the open source community 
> has been helping Linden Lab /directly/ with bug triage and Snowglobe 
> development.  Despite this, the case for open source still needs to be 
> made?  I'm extremely puzzled.
>
>
> And how are "/*thoughtful dialogue*/" and ability to "/*engage others 
> holding opposing views*/" related to the crafting of a technically 
> coherent policy on open source viewers?  Those are admirable qualities 
> in residents for social purposes of course, but I certainly hope that 
> Linden policy is based on the concrete benefits of open source (which 
> you know already) instead of on how it's presented in a massive blog war.
>
> There's something very odd happening here, and I wish I knew what it was.
>
>
> Morgaine.
>

M isn't a developer. He's here to make money by making his customers 
happy. The loudest customers are obviously the most committed and should 
be given the most attention.

Or something like that.


Lawson