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2 years ago

in Conquering Open Source Fears on Baba Sucks

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<li>Who will pay for developers?</li>
<li>How will property retain value when you can roll it out like toilet paper?</li>
<li>How will people's intellectual property be protected when you can endlessly extract and copy it?</li>
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- Prokofy Compared to what? We the users will pay the developers just as we do now. Virtual property will be worth more in one world than another based on demand just as property in one sim or another based on various factors now. We will protect our own property rights via real world registrations and lawsuits just like we do now. At this point in time, Linden Lab only provides a clearing mechanism to fund developers that operate a closed, proprietary world. The severe limitations they impose, through feature restrictions and a centralized architecture, are barely tolerated by the growing userbase of Internet conditioned people. That arrangement can't last much longer. Considering the other two points, they do nothing to ensure virtual property values or protection of property rights. They never have and, frankly, I believe they never will.
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