By the way, I agree LL is meandering around with their policies, but lab rats are there to purposely test and analyze to see what happens. You’re attributing motive to LL’s methods that I don’t think exists. Never attribute to purposeful malice what incompetence covers nicely.

Yes, there will certainly be alternatives, and I like competition too. The sooner the better. But to say that Openlife Grid or many of the other OpenSim platforms aren’t going to have some really noticeable growing pains and obstacles to overcome is pure horseshit. And they’ll bungle things too, and people will freak out and threaten to move to some other VW, maybe even SL again, who knows?

LL need to make serious improvements in policy making, and internal and external communication. But I think they do better technically and in terms of motive than people give them credit for. What’s going on with VW’s is a huge undertaking, and you’ll see fubars in all of them. The question is what kind of fubars and how they are handled.

If something else comes along that doesn’t have huge entry pain and broken things and has things to offer, sure, I’ll be in there trying it out and seeing what’s what. At some point I fully expect that some future metaversion will eclipse SL and we’ll move on.

I’m sure in time there will be great alternatives to SL, and Openlife Grid may be one of them. Right now, if you think the new user experience is chaotic for new SL residents, don’t even BOTHER with most of these other “competing” VW’s.

I understand there’s a lot of emotion around these issues, but issuing idle threats of leaving and stamping feet like 2 year olds instead of putting down the logical arguments that a few of the people upset at LL have actually done hurts the credibility of people in my eyes.

I still think of Matthias Cordeaux who basically had his business and hobby stripped away with really no notice with the advent of the gambling ban, and I think about how he handled it with grace and with well spoken opinions, thoughts, and facts. I wish a lot of the people just spraying spittle over this openspace sim thing could be a lot more like him.

That was a great line from Mr. Au - it’s comical how people threaten to leave the country. Democrats did it when Bush won twice and Republicans are threatening now that Obama looks like the likely winner.