[Opensim-users] Signal to NOISE ratio

[Karen Palen]

Well THIS lawyer uses OpenSim for fun!

However I agree the personal stuff belongs elsewhere and apologize for that at least.

Karen

--- On Thu, 2/25/10, John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Signal to NOISE ratio
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:43 AM
> 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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