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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong
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<strong>OpenSim.net Grid Launch Party<br>
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<div align="left">at the upper left of the page I'd guess this the
homepage (or future homepage) of someone's new grid. I think someone
may need to read the OpenSim license - maybe the part where it states:<br>
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" * * Neither the name of the OpenSimulator Project nor the<br>
* names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote
products<br>
* derived from this software without specific prior written
permission."<br>
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- Orion Pseudo<br>
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On 05/03/2010 10:59 AM, Fish Kungfu wrote:
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cite="mid:x2zf76e38f91005030759jeb4e99b9zaead7cca57a728c8@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<p>All the entries in the "News" and "Journals" section are posted by
someone named, Ismail Malik.</p>
<blockquote type="cite">On May 3, 2010 9:49 AM, "Tedd Hansen" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tedd@konge.net">tedd@konge.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Anyone know what <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.opensim.net" target="_blank"><span
style="color: windowtext;">www.opensim.net</span></a>
is all about?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The short story; It looks
to me like
someone (anonymous owner of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensim.net" target="_blank">opensim.net</a>) 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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(Yeah, darn those
feminists, can’t “he”
just cover both sexes?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[09:57:25] <Tedd1> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.opensim.net/videos/opensim-tutorial-6-basic-avatar"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.opensim.net/videos/opensim-tutorial-6-basic-avatar</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[09:57:28] <Tedd1>
whats this? :)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[09:58:05] <Tedd1> or
rather this; <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.opensim.net/"
target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.opensim.net/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:00:26]
<sachaMagne_> no idea </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:00:52] <Tedd1> it
seems to be
ripping data directly from other sites</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:00:59] <phrearch>
hey</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:01:00] <Tedd1>
and pretending to
"be" opensim</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:01:25] <Tedd1>
view source ->
Public Grid List Sorted <a
href="<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Grid_List/Sorted/Alphabetically"
target="_blank">http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Grid_List/Sorted/Alphabetically</a>"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:02:25]
<sachaMagne_> the
opensimulator list is wrong anywat </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:02:46]
<sachaMagne_> if you
select different sorts, you will find different result for the same grid</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:03:15] <Tedd1>
page contains RSS
feeds, steals lists from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://opensimulator.org" target="_blank">opensimulator.org</a>,
copy pastes info and mixes it with
lies and half baked truth without ever mentioning that it is *NOT*
opensim</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:03:28] <Tedd1>
*RSS feeds from
other pages (of course)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:03:36] <Tedd1> so
no actual
contribution, a lot of stealing :)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:04:09]
<sachaMagne_> not a
breaking news for RSS aggregator ... :/</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:07:22] <Tedd1>
someone should
probably contact the domain owner</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:07:46]
<sachaMagne_> i made a
whois and the real owner is hidden</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:08:07] <Tedd1>
time that could be
spent on features, bugfixes, etc</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[10:08:51]
<sachaMagne_> no legal
information on the site itself</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Br,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Tedd</span></p>
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