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Monday, March 3, 2008

When you don't understand Second Life

Second Life is More Than the Sims


I was thinking today about all this excitement and even hysteria about the new rendition of CopyBot and the projects like OpenSim and Central Grid. There's a kind of myth going around that these new "autonomous zones" will be free to have unregulated banking, gambling, ageplay, etc. as if the problem with Second Life is that the Lindens are too strict.

Of course they won't be able to do that if they reach any significant size. If they hope to be truly international and open, they will have to cross the same bridges that Linden Lab already crossed. It's not like they are going to get exceptions just because they can proclaim "non-walled-garden status". This is silly, and entitlement-happy, and self-indulgent.

And what is that life, that you can't copy? Which you can only port. Well, here it is:

Contiguous Community
Non-Contiguos Community
Business.
The Economy
Civility.
Governance and Policies.
Culture.
User-Generated Content
Continents.
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Posted by Lara Nieberding, The Data Digger at 10:37 PM

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