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    Actually, I thought that Linden Lab was going to pass on banning the Emerald Second Life viewer. After Lonely Bluebird killed the Emerald viewer project, it seemed like no further action was necessary. Well, it looks like the other shoe has actually dropped and the Lab is going to go ahead with it anyway. I’ve been thinking some more and reading some of your own thoughts about the position that Linden Lab is advertising for a Senior Client Manager. Well, after some reflection I think that there’s definitely a strong case for doing this (though admittedly, there’s probably an even stronger case for doing it four or five years ago). Linden Lab’s got two positions hiring at the moment. Let’s look at the most interesting one: the Senior Client Manager. So, some of the old crowd from the Emerald dev team have kicked off a new viewer project, starting with the source code of the old one, after a key Emerald developer dug his heels in and killed the old project. Max Kleiber dropped a comment just a few minutes ago that really gave me pause for some thought. Forget the ton of bug-fixes and changes in this build. Take a look at the oh-so-shiny features Linden Lab has a new vice-president of Marketing (though no word as to whether she’ll be working in the Lab’s marketing headquarters in Amsterdam as yet). Much is being made of the fact that she’s late of Activision-Blizzard. Jump to the new comic, or new readers can click the banner to begin at the rather rough beginning:
1. By and large, we didn’t learn to not put –gate on the end of things to signify a scandal. You know, if it had been called the Watercock hotel instead of the Watergate hotel, the entire landscape of media for the last several decades would have been far different, or at least much funnier. 2. Most of us didn’t learn to get Linden Lab’s name right. You’d think people would start getting that right eventually, wouldn’t you? 3. We didn’t learn to rethink our our basis for trust and for exercising caution and software hygiene when faced with the allure of shiny features. Security professionals are doubtless still tearing their collective hair out over that, as they have for years. So, give me all your money, while we’re on the subject, and maybe there could be a shiny feature in it for you… possibly. Thanks heaps! 
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