<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Stefan Andersson <<a href="mailto:stefan@tribalmedia.se">stefan@tribalmedia.se</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On a side note, I believe we'd all rather have an as disorganized but well-used 3D web as our current 2D web, than an as organized but long forgotten 2D web as for example Xanadu. Need I say 'VRML'?<br><br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>I think I miss gopher quite a lot - it was so well organized :-)<br><br>On a more serious note:<br><br>I *do* respect the IP rights - and see the difference the "community funding on tips" vs. the potentially "commercial project" can make in income in the current society - it is enormous - I can tell that from the first hand experience with the primskirtbuilder in SL. (It's just that I had other reasons to do that thing non-commercial, wanted to experiment, and my own integrity, reputation and piece of mind is worth to me more than a 5-digit dollar value. :-) <br>
<br>I might be in part faulty for the wrong impressions that some folks have got from my blogging - purely because my enjoyment from the opensim - beyond putting the small pieces of code very infrequently - is using the model it provides for performing the mental experiments of how the world *could* be. How the connected society *could* be. How the online money *could be*. How the humans *could be*, in the end. Different. Apologies if anyone has misunderstood those as a matter of "Official OpenSim goals".<br>
<br>However, in my opinion, this is where the SL has not exploited its immense potential - to be a place where the humanity can try the possible new different ways of organizing itself. Without the people being shot and loosing the homes. Without the countries' economies collapsing. <br>
<br>Some 10-ish years ago I was a witness of my country's currency value losing 2 digits (so for each of your 100 dollars you had only 1 after the exercise) over a period of 1 week - and that was the *real* currency, not the linden dollars. In a country with the population of over 100 million.<br>
I know people who were saving to buy a house, and ended up with an amount barely enough to live till the end of the month. <br><br>And I've witnessed the only savings that a lot of naive old people have put into a ponzi scheme advertized on national TV, vanish, as that ponzi scheme collapsed - and the organizer was never publicly prosecuted. <br>
<br>And I've seen the folks from the street being beaten up by the "national guards" because they did not like how they their faces looked like.<br><br>Making my own mental experiments about how the world could look like - this is what "My world, my imagination" translates into - for me personally, that is. <br>
<br>This mail does not represent any "official opensim" point of view nor attempts to diminish the content creators in SL - it just an explanation of why I think the way I think, rather than just giving the impression of merely a "communist tekkie". :-)<br>
<br>/d<br></div></div>