Top five predictions for today's town hall

Why should we let the mac fans have all the fun rumormongering? Without further ado, I present the top five predictions for today's town hall meeting. Pleae note that I have no factual basis for this and it is purely speculation on my part. In order from least likely to most likely:

5. Phillip admits that the SL codebase is hopelessly broken. Lacking suffient personnel to both maintain the existing grid and move SL development forward, Linden Labs will close down the grid. A new, improved SL will come up in 12-18 months.

4. LL will become a hosting company. All sims will be privately "owned" and managed under their own TOS.

3. In order to better recover costs associated with previously free accounts, LL moves Second Life to a monthly subscription fee for all accounts and eliminates all stipends.



2. Linden Lab or Second Life is to be bought by Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/Steve Wozniak's new startup/ insert name here.



1. Tier rises effective April 1.

There they are. We'll see what his eminence announces.

Apologies

I have been a non presence in this blog since the first of the year. The biggest reason for this is my involvement in that mosta hated of SL projeckts (sic), Neualtenburg, where I have now joined the political establishment, such as it exists.

First of all, let me answer the characterization of Neualtenburg as socialist. In the sense that there are land use covenants, and a significant proportion of public land (almost half the sim, although that includes some unsold lots), Neualtenburg is highly controlled compared to the mainland. However, there is private enterprise, the art musem is private, there are the beginnings of a private educational institution, and commercial spaces are springing up around the central plaza. It's inaccurate to characterize anything that's not anarchic as socialist.

I moved in to Neualtenburg because of the relatively low land fees and, most importantly, the existence of some sort of process. In other rental situations, if you upset the landlord, you can be out without recourse. As a relatively new resident, Neualtenburg made me feel more portected.

More on why I stayed later...