Today, M Linden posted an announcement regarding the Openspace controversy: A Letter to Second Life Residents. In this item, he announces a new pricing strategy: openspace sims and homestead sims. It's not my pay per prim proposal, but close enough. At least there's going to be a relation between usage and pricing, which seems reasonable enough to me. But, the exact prim and load limitations to be put on 'pure' openspace sims is going to be the defining factor for this new proposals' succes, and I haven't seen those yet. ... More >>

July 18, 2008:
Defendants deny that Second Life allows for the actual “conveyance of title” in “virtual land,” as “virtual land” is not property to which one may take “title,” but instead a license of access to Linden’s proprietary servers, storage space, bandwidth, memory allocation and computational resources of the server, which enables the experience of “land” and the things that one can do with “land” on the Second Life platform.” from statement by Linden Lab in Bragg vs. Linden case via The Forge
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How shall we play this?

The Thread Linden Lab tried to hide!

Is that exciting enough?

The Discussion Linden Lab deny happened!
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Well here is most of Jacks Office hour anyways.  Looks like I managed to lose the last 10 mins or so when I was on the porch chatting up the mailman.  But it's obvious that people are still very upset including me over the open space price increase..  At this point I just feel as if I was robbed by Linden Labs.  They sold me and I paid for a specific product with a specific number of prims and promise of tier.  Now they realize that they have made a mistake and people are actually using the product and prims given.  Now Linden Lab feels that it was a mistake after marketing a product without fully testing the product.  They messed up, not us.  The only thing I think would be fair is for them to grandfather the prims and tier for the people who they sold these sims to, or else recall the product and refund the purchase price.  They say they can't so that.  They plan to keep our money paid into it no matter what, but they are raising price 67% or changing it to the point that it's no longer what we purchased.  It's just plain unethical and wrong.  I'm very frustrated, along with several others....
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Protesting LL’s ridiculous move re:Openspaces is pwetty timeconzuming. So I’m going to kindly pass on listing all further blog traffic on it… BUT! there are other people that have pwetty senzible things to say. Today’s Openspace quote is from Crap Mariner’s “M… two…” “YOU SUNK MY SAILING SHIP!”, illustrating it is Danae Kamachi. Suggestions for Re:Openspace Quotes go in the comments. TY!

Yes, I said customers. Not community. Not residents.

Customers. With money. That they could be spending on comics books, drugs, really ugly clothes at Goodwill, body piercings, Palin In 2012 posters, or Cranberry Sierra Mist (damn, I love that stuff!).

Curious how much time you’ve got left to decide: openspace, homestead, full sim or nada? I figured* this might help… Do with it as you will, but err… clicking the small black circle in the lower right corner opens a ’share this’ window! ;)

* Actually, I was testing Sprout. But, ah, well. :d

I’m also testing Yolto (and some other stuff, but won’t bug you with that right now! ;)). Sadly enough I did not receive my akoha cards yet.

homestead, openspace, void

Jack Linden gives an ETA for details on the Homestead & Openspace script limitations:

We expect to have details of the limitations for scripts before January and will make those public as soon as we can. We’re going to be collecting detailed script and memory data for LSL and Mono ahead of that decision so that we fully understand where those limits should be.

We won’t be suddenly enforcing scripting limits with no warning, we will give residents plenty of time to adjust their script usage to the right levels, and we’ll provide tools to help measure so that there is no confusion. (in the Official Second Life Forums)

Before January 5th the current Openspace owners must have decided what to do with ‘their voids’, to enjoy the benefits of Linden Lab’s not-so-generous void exodus plan. So ‘before January’ and ‘expect’ makes me shiver. Does LL expect it’s residents customers to make such an important decision - yet again - without knowing what limitations await them? (And there’s the fact that people around Christmas and New Year tend to make more time available to their families, travelling for visits, dragging themselves from one reception to another. Strategic time schedule chosen by LL?)

(Still testing yolto.)

homestead, jack linden, openspace, scripting