So Philip Rosedale won’t be working full-time at Linden Lab anymore. He has his own project, and yes, he’ll stay chairman of Linden Lab. It’s not uncommon at all that a chairman of the board is not full-time at the company, quite the contrary.
There are some great blogposts out there already about the new situation, Wagner James Au on the New World Notes, Prokofy Neva on Second Thoughts, and undoubtedly many other posts, but Dusan Writer’s The Green Light is about exactly what I’ve to say about it, so I won’t bother writing it down here.
“Don’t worry” Philip says on his post. But I must admit I do worry. I guess Second Life is in good hands, and yes it’ll become far more practical and easier to use and more integrated with the web and more user friendly etc. But we do need visionaries. People who are living here among us, but also in some distant or not so distant future. People who are a bit wild, but who love their fellow-men. Dreamers maybe, but we cannot afford losing sight of them.
Roland Legrand