<p>All the entries in the "News" and "Journals" section are posted by someone named, Ismail Malik.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On May 3, 2010 9:49 AM, "Tedd Hansen" <<a href="mailto:tedd@konge.net">tedd@konge.net</a>> wrote:<br><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 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 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 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 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 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 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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