We welcome you to either attend in person in Second Life or view the live video of a large very photogenic PROTEST event in the original open space sims (the type of sims that will likely go away if Linden Lab’s announced policy stands).

This morning (Sunday Nov 2) at 10AM Pacific time there will be a large PROTEST REGATTA starting from the four open space sims which were the first such sims created in Second Life (Santa Barbara,Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and Santa Catalina sims).

Surrounding Hollywood sim and Starboards Yacht Club these sims will host a PROTEST REGATTA which will be webcast live on the SLCN.TV network (http://slcn.tv). Boats from various SL communities (such as the very popular sailing and pirate role-playing communities) will wear colorful protest sails and flags.

The race course will take the protesting fleet through more than twenty open space sims, each of whose very existence is threated by the Linden Lab policy announcement.

For further information contact MarkTwain White in world or at marktwainwhite@gmail.com

“Also, this should get crossposted or at least linked to the official SL forums where this fiasco is being “discussed.” *cough*”

SLX has a good, public forum. I linked it to the SLX forum here.

I won’t be surprised to learn that the real reason of all this stuff about Openspace was to avoid to see Openspace competing with their Immersive Workpace (whose the prices will be probably higher than full sim and on which LL put a lot of hopes for increasing their profitability…)

But I’m maybe paranoiac :)

They have a large number of open space sims which are empty and are used solely for sailing and flying seaplanes - not a single house or skybox and yet they are being punished as well.

My parents were hippies.

Such a cruel world../cries

Weird…

I’m still holding out hope (shoot me now) that LL will be brave and do the right thing.

We’ll see, but I do feel better knowing that their own employee’s apparently didn’t understand the rules about the OS’s and also *gasp* built on them (slightly sarcastic there, I’m pretty sure LL knows their own rules….) versus using them for boats and trees and a rock! Cause we can’t forget that rock!

In any case, yes, we all know that voids are quite capable of harbouring reasonably sophisticated builds and only fall down with heavy occupancy or intensive scripting (and, in fact, I can point to some very specific points of scripting which work well in full-fat sims but not in starving voids; link messages particularly). And indeed the Laboratory knew that too. It is good, though, to have some concrete examples to which one can point and say “well what about THAT then?”