[Opensim-dev] Having struggled with the privs inherited from SL I wish to object.

[Jim Williams]

Time for another fork?


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Dahlia Trimble <dahliatrimble at gmail.com>wrote:

> You're free to change your permissions as you would like them to be.
> Nobody is restricting your freedom. If the defaults were changed for
> everyone just to suit your convenience, then others would be
> inconvenienced. If the permission system doesn't suit your needs, you're
> also free to use other software that you find better suits your needs.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Jim Williams <sphere1952 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> No...Clearly default ought to be no restrictions.  This is a simple
>> matter of freedom of speech.  If I have to tell you you are free to repeat
>> my speech then I am not free.  My speech is restricted.
>>
>> If someone wants to charge for receiving their speech it is fine with me,
>> as long as I am not encumbered by their desires.  You may invent whatever
>> controls you want for people to use to limit the reach of their speech, as
>> long as I have to do nothing to ignore them.  All I want is the default of
>> freedom to speak rather than the assumed default that I don't want to speak.
>>
>> Also, kill what??????
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:48 PM, R.Gunther <rigun at rigutech.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>  Uhmm, or you type it wrong or you think wrong.
>>> default stuff must have no perms. so the owner decide what transfer or
>>> copy perms need to be set. if it need to be set.
>>> Set everything default to full perms is a killer and very wrong.
>>>
>>> On 2014-03-25 15:23, Jim Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't really care much what controls are allowed the creator, but I
>>> care a whole lot about the defaults.  My speech is not free if I have to
>>> tell you it is free.
>>>
>>>  I think that any privs set to default to restricting copying are both
>>> evil and wrong -- especially those involved in scripting, since that is
>>> what I wish to spend my time on in the Metaverse.
>>>
>>>  All privs need to be adjusted such that the people wanting to restrict
>>> access to their stuff are the ones who have to do something.
>>>
>>>  Thank you,
>>> Dharma Galaxy at metropolis
>>> Dharma Glaxy @osg
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