Well… there’s again some hiccups and discussion about an action of Modular Systems around their Second Life Viewer Emerald. One of the developers changed the login page in a kind of manner to generate quite much unnecessary traffic to a blog of a person which wrote something against Emerald some while ago. There have reportedly been many Iframes in the page to generate literally tons of traffic.
Well, the victim of that action had around 16.5 million hits so far. Otherwise there seems to be no harm done, but it is the intention that counts in my opinion.
Personally I am getting more and more fed up with the attitude of Modular Systems at all. Again there’s an excuse for that behaviour, they didn’t deny that it happened, but otherwise there are no more consequences or so it seems to me. If this would have been the first incident, well, we could count it as lessons in better behaviour. But now? I am sure that this is not going to be the last startling revelation about Emerald - and it sucks, because the viewer really was once upon the competition for quite some time, but now keeps loosing ground more and more against the other third party viewers.
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