[Opensim-dev] www.opensim.net

[Fish Kungfu]

All the entries in the "News" and "Journals" section are posted by someone
named, Ismail Malik.

On May 3, 2010 9:49 AM, "Tedd Hansen" <tedd at konge.net> wrote:

 Hi



Anyone know what www.opensim.net is all about?



The short story; It looks to me like someone (anonymous owner of opensim.net)
has hijacked a name (opensim) he or she may or may not have legal rights to
with the (criminal) intent of abusing a (free) product name for his or her
own benefit.

(Yeah, darn those feminists, can’t “he” just cover both sexes?)



I really hope this doesn’t mean that core developers have to spend time on
legal issues because some 14 year old wants to run his/her own site. This is
valuable time for professional developers that can be spent on making
OpenSim better instead of bitching to lawyers.



[09:57:25] <Tedd1>
http://www.opensim.net/videos/opensim-tutorial-6-basic-avatar

[09:57:28] <Tedd1> whats this? :)

[09:58:05] <Tedd1> or rather this; http://www.opensim.net/

[10:00:26] <sachaMagne_> no idea

[10:00:52] <Tedd1> it seems to be ripping data directly from other sites

[10:00:59] <phrearch> hey

[10:01:00] <Tedd1> and pretending to "be" opensim

[10:01:25] <Tedd1> view source -> Public Grid List Sorted <a href="
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Grid_List/Sorted/Alphabetically"

[10:02:25] <sachaMagne_> the opensimulator list is wrong anywat

[10:02:46] <sachaMagne_> if you select different sorts, you will find
different result for the same grid

[10:03:15] <Tedd1> page contains RSS feeds, steals lists from
opensimulator.org, copy pastes info and mixes it with lies and half baked
truth without ever mentioning that it is *NOT* opensim

[10:03:28] <Tedd1> *RSS feeds from other pages (of course)

[10:03:36] <Tedd1> so no actual contribution, a lot of stealing :)

[10:04:09] <sachaMagne_> not a breaking news for RSS aggregator ... :/

[10:07:22] <Tedd1> someone should probably contact the domain owner

[10:07:41] <Tedd1> would be really pittyful if core members had to spend
time on legal issues to get some 14 year old to play nice

[10:07:46] <sachaMagne_> i made a whois and the real owner is hidden

[10:08:07] <Tedd1> time that could be spent on features, bugfixes, etc

[10:08:51] <sachaMagne_> no legal information on the site itself



Br,

 Tedd

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