[Opensim-users] setting up "In world" commerce

[Mike Chase]

IMO, anyone looking to do RL monetary transactions on top of OpenSIM
when its clearly declared by its developers as "Alpha Software" is
simply asking for trouble.  Unless your planning on a fork and
significant work at hardening it (as the Inworldz folks are doing) its
just simply not ready for that.   Notice also there is *no* support in
core for this and there has been discussion as to the reason why.

If you do proceed then I'd say Karen's advice is pretty mandatory to
protect yourself. 

Mike

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 00:32 -0700, Karen Palen wrote:
> I posted this in response to another thread, but it is enough of a hot
> topic that it justifies its own thread.
> 
> If you are planning on something that deals in real life transactions IN
> ANY WAY, then look into setting up a business entity (Corporation, LLC,
> or whatever) to run it.
> 
> See http://www.keytlaw.com/ for a summary of this aspect.
> 
> "Information & Articles about Arizona and United States Law"
> 
> Keyt is an Arizona/US lawyer, but the issues he raises are universal. I
> highly recommend studying his website!
> 
> As Keyt says in one of his articles, the day the process server knocks
> on the door is one day too late!
> 
> ONE disgruntled user who lost real life money (or "value") to a crook on
> your sim can cost you everything you own and everything will ever own!
> 
> Karen
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