Comments on: It’s a Fake World After All…

By: Plot Tracer

Plot Tracer — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:09:59 +0000

The SLLU open letter to the Lindens about these further curbs to freedom can be viewed on http://www.slleftunity.com

By: jennyfurperegrine

jennyfurperegrine — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:37:41 +0000

Its the risk anyone takes when signing on to burgeoning technologies. I’m sure many of the same arguments were had during the initial stages of the internet becoming more and more popular through the 1990s. Granted Second Life is not the internet nor will it ever be, but it is a new technology as the internet once was. Paths have been forged in many new territories since virtual worlds have become more and more prominent in the mainstream media.

Many of us who have been involved with Second LIfe for 4-5 years now have seen the client develop over time and many of us are sad to say that Second Life has only become more unstable over the years. The stability issues of 2008 compared year by year since the end of their official beta period in 2003 have grown, but so has the population and features.

By: Archer

Archer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:27:54 +0000

I’m sorry. But anyone who’s spent time and capitol in developing products, content or services surrounding someone else’s piece of bug-infested, unreliable, and insecure software should never anticipate they’ll be able to operate a successful business based upon such work.
Understand this…the only goal for Linden Lab was to develop a viable “virtual world” protocol for deployment on the internet. Everything you, or any member of their “community” has ever done, has only been allowed as a method of beta-testing their product. I am in awe of how Linden Lab convinced thousands of people to pay them for the privilege of testing software, that came with implicit warnings in its TOS about how Linden Lab wasn’t responsible for a single, thin dime that anyone invested in its platform – one which has no guarantee whatsoever of being here tomorrow.
That last point is perhaps the most telling, and is one that I believe will slowly come to make creeping, horrific sense to most people. It’s insane to invest in this platform…and even moreso to “expect” ANY return on your investment.

By: T_S_Kimball

T_S_Kimball — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:40:42 +0000

I read about this last night, and am also annoyed.

Though my site does not specifically have problems with the TM et al, I *am* in the formative stages of creating a ‘migration guide’ for those Myst Online members like myself (faced with a Second Shutdown) who have decided to move to this ‘world.’ This has delayed my research segment somewhat, as I now need to re-write the request-for-inclusion notecards that I’m preparing for Residents who have web sites or land sites.

Figures, eh?

–Timothy Kimball
aka Alan Kiesler

By: jennyfurperegrine

jennyfurperegrine — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:06:07 +0000

Anyone who has invested time and capital into developing products, content and services surrounding Second Life has made a significant investment on all fronts. The whole thing just smacks of Linden Lab backpedaling over poor policy to try to make the company more saleable. Sadly, one of Second Life’s key selling points early on was its approach to IP rights for user created content and that the early resident developers felt part of the larger SL community with the Lindens. Those days are long gone.

By: kesseret

kesseret — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:58:57 +0000

amen. I said I feel violated/mugged, but slap in the face is a better way to express it.

By: Maegen Parvenu

Maegen Parvenu — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:47:18 +0000

“Read these guidelines if you’d like to use any of our trademarks on your website, in a URL, in advertising, in an article or book, in a film or television show, in a software product, or anywhere else. You likely need our permission. Read more here.” (from the page on branding).

The first rule of Second Life club is you need permission to talk about Second Life club?