Hamlet Au over at New World Notes has an interview with the CEO of Linden Labs, he says about the subject of the interview:
Mark Kingdon, new CEO of Linden Lab, in which we mostly spoke about the first grassroots uprising to test his leadership: the ongoing rebellion over the fate of Openspaces, which are currently set for a steep price increase in January. In the next few days, however, Kingdon says the company will post an update to this policy which will incorporate feedback from Openspace owners.
The interesting bits for me were the following questions and answers:
What percent of Openspace owners were abusing their land?
"In some cases they have beautiful builds so I'd hardly call that abusing the land... I don't have a percentage of that for you, but it was substantial enough that it led to us repricing the product."
Isn't "light use" a vague definition?
"I think we need to put more definition around it and be clearer about what we mean by it... I think we articulated what the intention was [when they were first put on sale]."
Didn't giving Openspace owners a several thousand prim allotment tacitly or even explicitly suggest they could build on them?
"That's a far lower prim count than our [standard] island product... some of the larger landholdings you see, the content is far more extensive than we expected."
So, it looks like they aren't going to actually ban people who overuse, just charge them. This is still not resolved and we will have to see if they handle this in a way that allows me and the people like me to survive. Either way they've done immense damage to the trust and goodwill they had built recently.
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