Subject: Re: [mmox] mmox Digest, Vol 2, Issue 4

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:52:17 GMT

Jon,

I'm sure the Lindens on this list are pleased to see you doing their job for them of putting their users down. If you can't reach interoperability, at least you can make common cause there, eh?

I'd have to reject the idea that each community of users under each technology platform is all in thrall to that technology platform's devs, and can never speak up in a global setting and can only petition their Lords and Magistrates on their own platform. I simply reject that the platform providers and their CTOs are Lords and Sovereigns and that their sovereignty trumps all, so that there is no international law and no universal jurisdiction that the common user can speak about above his lowly station on his platform. How can you have an interoperability (global) operation that rejects the principles of universality and makes sovereignty trump all?

Your idea that Second Life or any individual technology users cannot object to the way their overlords are raising both domestic and international issues simply belongs to the Dark Ages. No other area of human affairs is run in this medieval fashion any more -- I thought that your virtual world technology was supposed to be progressive and bettering the world?

At least we in SL have enough of a transparent development process dispensed from the overlord devs that we even hear about and know about these issues as members of the general public. I wonder about the users of There.com or even your much more savvy and sophisticated government and corporate clients. Perhaps they trust you as CTO to raise all their issues on their behalf and never say a peep, but surely it would be in their interests to know about, follow along, and comment on an interoperability process directly affecting them and their goals and bottom line  -- and you wouldn't deny them that right *surely* given the kinds of big customers they are. So why the scorn toward SL users, driving them back with a lash to their oppressive Second Life JIRAs?

Just as I said to Infinity Linden, this isn't a common billing issue, or a walled-garden issue of "hey, he has a tree waving on my land and you haven't answered my ticket". This isn't "we hate what you are doing with the splash screen" or "why do we only have 25 groups?". These are more global issues of "Just what are your plans to secure our IP when you interoperabilize?" "Are you representing use cases that are actual uses, that will be universalized?"

I can't imagine the masses using There, Kaneva, Second Life, Twinity, etc. are that different that each has to be sequestered on their platform and never speak up about issues common to all except through technologists. And I don't think we need to heed your directive, "Leave the driving to us". Maybe we had to do that on Web 1.0. But this is Web 2.0. 

Prokofy

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