[Opensim-users] You Assholes lost our funding!

[James Stallings II]

Apparently, you don't agree completely.
'Useless' is a terrific overstatement, as is the characterization 'malware'.
I tend to think of the whole thing as more of an easter egg, especially
given that the 'logic bomb' fires for only 24 hours.
The real tragedy here is that so few have gotten the message with respect to
deploying this alpha software in a production capacity: Don't. And if you
do, be prepared for a rough ride.



On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Frank W Sweet <fwsweet at backintyme.com>wrote:

> James Stallings II wrote, "Bravo Ralf, well done," refering to a
> message by Ralf Haifisch that ends with, "Don´t blame other for a lack
> of skills, prudence or you nervous customers."
>
> I agree completely. Here is a project where a developer (with the
> avowed support of other developers) plants a time-bomb that denotates
> weeks later, rendering the software unusable in a way that cannot be
> recovered by reverting to prior relases (which were aready secretly
> contaminated). I agree with Ralf and Stallings. Anyone who continues
> in such a project, knowing that this can happen again, is lacking in
> prudence, skills, and will certainly have nervous customers.
>
> By the way, how much longer is this thread going to continue? It seems
> to me that everything that can be said has been said. Developers
> (correctly) believe that they have the right to plant time bombs that
> render the software useless because everyone is warned that the
> software is pre-release (bleeding edge, trunk, whatever). I agree.
> They have that right, since they are volunteers and need to commit a
> "prank" now and then. On the other hand, some users (including me)
> believe that prudence requires us to shun such a project because,
> while we can live with bugs, which can be reverted, we cannot live
> with with deliberate malware, which cannot.
>
> FWS
>
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