well the developer of the emkdu dll file is PHOX. From the interview on treettv, Fractured purchased the license to develop it, PHOX did the actual developing, Fractured was asked to step down, PHOX is still on the team of emerald developers.
PHOX and Fractured are very close. All the way back when it was VLife and PhoxSL. they were nearly identical. So i would almost bet that its a blitz attack on the public. Fractured walks away. PHOX stays. Fractured and PHOX still have control over the program cause PHOX is still committing code. and as far as the licensing goes..... If PHOX is the developer of the emkdu file( remember this is the bad file in the emerald viewer) and they are still planning to use emkdu.... who is developing it? PHOX? On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:27:40 -0400, Rob Nelson <nexisentertainm...@gmail.com> wrote: > They used a custom build of the KDU JPEG compression library to embed > information in baked textures, such as the installation directory and > the title of the window. The outrage around this is that Emerald > developers: > > 1. Disclosed private information without informing users about the > disclosure in their privacy policy (installation folder can contain the > username, usually on Linux, though). > 2. Obfuscated this system by hiding it within a closed-source library > 3. Continued to lie about the purpose of this system. > 4. LINDEN LAB CONTINUES TO IGNORE THE TPV VIOLATIONS. If I had pulled > this crap with my tiny viewer, I'd have been banned back into the stone > age. The double standard Linden Lab uses infuriates many who were > forced to do many difficult changes to comply with the TPV, only to find > out that Linden Lab has no intention of enforcing it. > 5. Reportedly, Emerald merely changed the encryption method used when it > was discovered. I don't even know if they changed their KDU library to > comply yet, or if they're covering their bums still by making a storm of > apologetic blog posts while continuing the same old crap. > > Rob Nelson > > On 8/24/2010 1:50 PM, Harold Brown wrote: >> What I find interesting is that people are neglecting to realize that >> ANY viewer, even a LL viewer could have been used to do the same thing >> by changing the WEBPAGE the login screen pointed to. Or for that >> matter distributing a object using the new Media functions to load a >> webpage with the exact same iframe set. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:03 AM, David M Chess<ch...@us.ibm.com> wrote: >>> Could we move all this stuff to a new "emeraldgate" list, or something? >>> >>> That I could then carefully not subscribe to? >>> >>> __ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >>> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >>> privileges >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
