>No, she didn't. Maybe if you had actually read Tateru's post, you'd realize it's quite different from Saijaini's announcement.

I did. And it was nearly verbatim from Saijanai's forums and JIRA statements, follow the links, and see for yourself.

2. "(he's the head of AWG)" -- Bzzt! No, he isn't. He is _an active participant_ in AWG, but he's not the head. Would you like me to explain the difference?

For all practical purposes, he is the front man, the leader at meetings, the go-getter, and is essentially the main guy there because Zha is either a) busy in RL or more important SL IBM things or b) cunning enough not to get involved with "thecommunity" so that he can just do what he wants to anyway

Should I explain the difference?

3. That's undestandable: you have so much to say, and so little time to check facts or even attempt to maintain a coherent thought.

Perhaps Tateru, or you, could show me links where the script-kiddies "debated this since 2005". I mean, one hilarious thing is that AWG wasn't even formed until 2007, so pretty hard for them to debate ROFL. And if you read the transcripts on the wiki or blogs, you will not find any "debate". There are only very rarely some moderates who step up against the virulent copyleftism coming in from the Lindens or the coders and kibbutzers on SL-DEV.

Please paste to me a passage from ANYWHERE that shows this was being debated before the last few weeks, and *from these people's office meetings* anything that shows they really care about this. I gave this a THOROUGH exegesis on my blog here, for example, and you can see every word they say is "Let's not really this, oh, we could, maybe, but oh, let's not and say we did."

BZZT here it is!
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/06/how-they-sign-y.html