Revisiting the announcements of CGTextures and Renderosity re: LL’s new ToS
As everyone who hasn’t been living under a sculptie rock knows, LL has changed its Terms of Service on the 15th of August. This change has been met with a copious flow of virtual lachrimal fluids and...
View ArticleLinden Lab amends Section 2 of its ToS
Last August, Linden Lab revised its Terms of Service. The most important changes were made to Section 2, which governs content licences and intellectual property rights. While the entire section was...
View ArticleThoughts on the (non-)changes to Section 2.3 of LL’s ToS
This post is certainly going to be one of the most difficult for me. No, it’s not personal, intimate or anything. It’s just that what I see makes it very difficult for me to maintain a civil tone – and...
View ArticleYet another stupid dick move by Linden Lab
UPDATE: The situation described herein has been resolved; please read the follow-up post here. Perhaps thinking we had missed its worst, Linden Research Inc. decided to file a trademark complaint with...
View ArticleBloggers and Linden Lab trademarks: sanity prevailed
The talk of the day was #berryCopyright, a (erroneously named, as the dispute was about trademarks and not copyrights) hashtag encompassing a trademark complaint Linden Research Inc. filed with YouTube...
View ArticleEbbe Altberg: A Quick Retrospective and Tribute
Credit: Linden Research, Inc. A few hours ago, Patch Linden announced the sad news of the passing of Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Linden Research, Inc.; sad news for all of us who care about Second Life, as...
View Article(Second) Life after Ebbe
The late Ebbe Altberg at the 2015 Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland – Image Credit: Web Summit The first weekend of June wasn’t a good one for Linden Lab, Second Life, or for anyone who cares about either...
View ArticleAn In-Depth Look on Brad Oberwager’s Talk on SL18B Lab Gab Special (June 21st)
Strawberry Linden (left) with Brad Oberwager (Oberwolf Linden) at June 21st’s Lab Gab SL18B Special On Monday, June 21st, I attended the airing of the Lab Gab SL18B Special show with Strawberry Linden...
View ArticleLinden Lab finally responds to allegations concerning senior exec
Recently, Second Life was rocked again by a scandal centred around sexualised ageplay and other workplace transgressions. The scandal broke out when a pseudonymous article (now taken down, but...
View ArticleTaking Brad Oberwager’s Statement Apart
On the 20th, I wrote that Brad Oberwager, Linden Lab’s owner, issued an official statement on the shocking allegations that shook Second Life and implicated a senior LL exec and several others around...
View ArticleAnd Now, Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
© and ® Linden Lab A month has passed since a pseudonymously-penned blog post that cannot / must not be linked to or read rocked Second Life (SL for short) with extremely serious allegations against a...
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