Karl "Qarl" Stiefvater has declined to work any further with Linden Lab on incorporating the code to his useful alignment tool into the official SL viewer. This comes last week after the Linden vet donated the code; since then, Linden Lab engineer Charlie "Charlar" Hite rejected it as is, writing on the company's feature management JIRA site, "It does not work for non-mod permission objects... [and is] usable for purely prim-based builders under specific circumstances. It's less useful for building with non-cube prims, mesh, sculpties." While not necessarily rejecting Charlar's technical points, Karl believes the move reflects a personal animus Linden Lab staffers have against Karl, whose contract was ended by the company in 2010 under disagreeable circumstances.

"He's not 'wrong' to reject the code," Karl tells me now. "His claim that it doesn't work on no-mod objects - if true - needs to be addressed. But issues like these have been overlooked time and time again in the past - the Lindens like to completely rewrite contributions when they receive them. So that, and the (crazy) dismissal of its usefulness, AND the abrasive language - tells me I'm getting special treatment."

Karl goes on: