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One of the most amusing rumors I hear concerning Second Life is that the Management Team is positioning Second Life to go Commercial.

People tell me tall tales and Grandiose plans of how Linden Lab is wanting ALL Individuals in Second Life to quit so Linden Lab can focus their attention to Corporate America/World.

While these rumors are fun to listen to, every once in a while someone comes along pleading with me to take them seriously when they tell me this plan. I admit, there are some interesting happenings from Linden Lab that one could conclude that they don't like the Community of Second Life very much, but it's doubtful that Linden Lab has enough forethought or even expertise to make such a plan come to fruition; even if they did, the plan fails on multiple points.

I agree that Linden Lab is once again setting themselves up for a Hate-Fest when they decided that they would not only charge people for LISTING items on XSTREETSL, but also they are going to charge commission for any sales of those items. Yes, this is a slap in the face to every single content creator in Second Life and shows once again just how disconnected Linden Lab is to the Community. That being said, it's not a very good point to dream up a conspiracy theory with.

IF Linden Lab were wanting every person to just stop coming into Second Life so they could close it down and focus on "bigger fish", they would have a terrible time getting any Corporation to buy this product as it stands today.

Just how many times in a week do we see a status Blog update stating that something is wrong? Regularly we see login problems, Asset Server issues, rolling restarts because they found ANOTHER bug in their latest code, and so on and so on. Just today I spent the good part of a 1/2 hour trying to remodel a store in Garman and the only thing holding me back is the fact that Linden Lab can't fix their Asset Servers and my Config Notecard won't open.

It's been TWO YEARS now since we were PROMISED that the Asset Server was the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY of the Team and they would fix it SOON. Seems to me that Linden Labs definition of SOON leaves (as usual) something to be desired. I wonder just WHY it's taking our friends at Linden Lab to correct this? I mean, TWO YEARS is a very long time, especially to programmers.

Of course, as usual, no one at Linden Lab cares to speak about such matters and instead they bring us news of "Behind the Firewall" product for those Corporations that want to have a Second Life Grid all ready to go, but don't want to open it up to everyone in the world. One wonders just how Linden Lab gets these Corporations to purchase this product when Linden Lab can't even keep it running more then 7 days without a major problem.

I was really hoping that Blue Linden was right when he suggested I hold off making judgements concerning Linden Lab Management Team, that perhaps they would actually do great things. Well, I held off for nearly 7 months, and that's a LONG time, and what have we got to show for it? Greed Driven Fee Policy's at XSTREETSL, a New Product for the Corporate World, and bugs in Second Life that were PROMISED to be fixed TWO YEARS AGO.

Well, I really don't have to say it, I mean, if you can't figure it out for yourself, you are either dumb or just a fanboi. So, I'll just end this here and go back to trying to open my Notecard.

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