Actually I would say that emerald killed emerald, but that's just my take on the situation...

LL did not kill it. One developer that LL had issues with did not leave the team. The other 2 stepped down for the good of the project.

In the end it was only one person who killed Emerald Viewer.

Yep. One immature person's ego destroyed Emerald.

From what I've seen, though, the other developers were willing to continue, and LL put some rather draconian conditions

Which is pretty believable to me, given the past attitude of LL towards talent, oh well

These guys have a past, and their actions made it clear they had not put it behind them.

And they're propensity for fucking around was putting LL's reputation and integrity at risk.

guess it's time to find another viewer, i'll be dead before loading 2.0

for once, I have to disagree with you, Shir... they asked Emerald to remove a team member who collected personal data on all of their users

in my mind, that is a perfectly reasonable request. he refused to step down, and the team refused to make him

Now, now, "LL" and "reputation" and "integrity" on the same sentence, does not compute.

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If you want to put the Emerald team on one side and LL on the other? I'll put my money on LL. Wincing, but I will.

agree..I've lost confidence in Em's ability to keep my info secure.

The 'developers' who were asked to step down from Emerald had histories of griefing and hacking SL, it had nothing to do with jealousy

If you want a REAL rollercoaster ride, I pretty much dare anyone to run the emerald team's last release is.

Personally I'd be scared shitless of it at this point. I'm not willing to risk the "flip youoff as you show me the door" move by the haxorz

I uninstalled just before LL's initial announcement, and changed all of my passwords.

they were griefers, talented they were but still griefers and acted like children.

some of the comments on that blog post have me completely baffled.

She's added a new post with the specific LL requirements.

Some people seem determined to tar and feather SL.

Instead of Bluebird.

*LL

well, we have so many reason to tar and feather LL that one more or one less won't do much of a difference

it makes a difference when misinformation is thrown around like fact.