[Originally posted 01-Sep-2010 here]
As you know, there has been a lot of worry and concern over Emerald with regards to privacy issues, data mining and illegal activities.
Linden Lab have removed Emerald from their Third Party Viewers list and advised everyone to use other Viewers.
As of today the developers of Emerald have folded the project due to mutiny, disagreement, and Linden Lab demanding that certain developers be removed which they were unwilling to do.
I’m sad to see Emerald go as, for all it’s warts and dodginess, it was a very good Viewer and was very innovative.
It’s just a shame that it was ruined by a bunch of immature Script Kiddies who couldn’t resist messing it all up for everyone.
I’m sure the hard work will be back-ported into other Viewers. LordGregGreg has a version of the full source code for Emerald that he has released as “Emergence” although has stated he will not be actively developing it.
Meanwhile Jessica Lyon has resigned from Emerald and has set up a blog to discuss her side of things – jessicalyons.wordpress.com
