[Opensim-users] Signal to NOISE ratio

[John Mieske]

He's right guys.. I forget that lawyers and other businesses use open source
OpenSim for money. If you guys need to chat about anything you can do it on
my website.

 http://johnmieske.org

Lets keep this group OpenSim for USERS as it is, for technical issues only.

Sorry John and Jason and dz.
john

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:10 PM, dz <dz at bitzend.net> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> James made a reasonable request.
> "How about taking these marathon email threads to a private CC list?"
>  I will make it more explicit.
>
> If you want to post to the list to share information useful to the general
> population of OpenSim users,   Please DO!!   Simple netiquette rules
> apply,   post it with a meaningful subject,  make it concise, and provide
> references to where more can be learned about the topic you wish to discuss.
>
> Since the automated nature of this list sends emails to all recipients
> whenever you are too lazy to do anything other than hit a reply button, so
> you can post your  "I agree"...   PLEASE consider  cutting the RELEVANT part
> of the prior post..  and THEN consider if that is vitally important for us
> to know.   OTHERWISE  send an email to the person you agree with   instead
> of all of us.
>
> If you want to post information about how "L33T' you are, how bad you think
> patent attorneys are, how DRM can be circumvented , or the fact that you
> personally hate sculpties,   Please DO NOT!
>
> If your intent is to flaunt the fact that you are intentionally violating
> the Linden labs terms of service or  boast about how efficient it is to get
> pirated content via this URL vs another,  Please  talk to a good lawyer and
> take those discussions elsewhere.
>
> There are a lot of people dedicating significant amounts of TIME and MONEY
> trying to make OpenSim a working application platform.   One of the  MAJOR
> hurdles to that effort is the fact that anyone who comes to see what the
> user community is about sees POST after POST after POST detailing your basic
> disregard for the concepts of content ownership.     They AREN'T going to
> read your sentence at the end where you "disclaim" any relationship with the
> folks generating tools designed to rip legitimate content.
>
> Honestly.   Please..   If your bitch with Linden Labs is about your
> inability to make backups of the things you designed on the SL platform,
> take it to their forums.   Your postss here do nothing to resolve that
> issue.  Your continued discussion of methods of exporting SL content to
> OpenSim just makes us ALL look like we share your disregard for the contract
> you entered when you agreed to use SL.    There are dedicated efforts to
> making legitimate backup tools for content creators in OpenSim.  Once those
> tools are in place, OpenSim will have a competitive advantage.  That
> advantage will be useless when all of our future customers are wondering if
> we are still using all of these other "tools".
>
>
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