Subject: Re: [mmox] mmox Digest, Vol 1, Issue 71

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:34:17 GMT

<okay.
let me be clear.
if you are upset that a particular second life account was terminated  
for non payment of fees, this is an issue you need to bring up with  
linden lab, not this list.
this is a forum for the technical discussion of the development of  
interoperability protocols for virtual worlds.
please take the discussion of linden's policies elsewhere.

I don't understand what this is about and can't tell whether this misunderstanding is deliberate or not. I'm certainly not discussing the termination of some SL account for non-payment of fees. Huh? I'm not upset about any account termination whatsoever; if I've cited a blog article that references account terminations among other points, this isn't at all some bid to examine the merits of those individual cases *whatsoever*, Infinity, but a generic point: people are using their reconstituted versions of the opensource client for griefing, and are terminated. Opensourcing of the client has led more to griefing and theft than it has led to improved performances of the client. That's all -- and that has consequences for interoperability if all forms of DRM are dropped -- or left to be managed as some individual private affair by each individual vendor by their own lights -- which means to not manage it collectively at all, and to destroy it for some. 

Let *me* be clear. I fully understand the rules of SL and this list, and the mandate that requires raising a customer service complaint in an appropriate channel like a customer service page, not a group like this. This isn't about some individual customer service problem. I wasn't rezzed yesterday. I've been in SL four times as long as you, Infinity, and my business like those of many other inworld businesses help pay your salary, so I'll thank you not to be condescending, and not to assume that someone raising a generic concern is merely making some silly bid to get some griefer's account reopened. Please.

Yes, this is a forum for the discussion of the interoperability protocols for virtual worlds. If LL policies are going to be presented in a bid for universalization as standards, and there are implications for c/m/t or not c/m/t, it definitely becomes relevant. That is, if LL decides not to actively lobby for the inclusion of c/m/t, but will merely take a passive posture of not stripping it out deliberately while letting others do that, then it becomes a global position with domestic repercussions which then go on having global repercussions. 

Let's fast forward to that bright future when all the worlds are connected and interoperable, but without c/m/t anywhere except on the LL servers. The demand will be to upload SL inventories into settings where there are no permissions, like OpenSim, as a central concept of the grid, but only tacked on as a module here and there. What kind of impact do you think that will have on IP? 

Perhaps this discussion is arcane for some, as evidently, the engines and systems of the other world don't work on the basis of prims and geographically contiguous land and such, so it's really only an issue for SL clones, except that textures can be uploaded anywhere even in worlds where UGC is heavily restricted. 

Linden's policies, if they are universalized so as to apply to interoperability everywhere, become the business of everyone, not just a customer service problem.

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