Petition to form the Corporation

Ewww. It's too early for innuendo!

If a corp has a team of people that make that much money and they use GOM to cash out, then it makes for sense for them to use GOM as a bank, not SLEX.

I see no possibility of anyone convincing the masses of SL to collectively donate 100K a month using SLeX. When it's ready people might buy a couple shares in their friends corp, put them up for sale maybe, but you wont see anything substantial.

This idea lives on and we continue to lobby for the formation of Corporations.

dunno who this 'we' is but keep corps away from me

Since I'm practically a newbie (and will probably always be), do explain something to me. Why, when someone plans to do bring an RL concept into SL, the majority suddenly screams with paranoia seizures? I've seen it happen over and over again, with the issue about governments, then about copyrights, now about corporations...

I missed the debate when GOM went up (I guess I should dig it up in the forums), but I guess it was about the same...

Morgaine, I like you a lot personally, because of your cold-blooded logical analysis, but in this case I can't understand what the problem is. Someone who "brings in" L$10,000,000 through GOM isn't in a position to do what he wants? Buy the land? Get people to build amazing stuff for them? Hell, pay people to let them have good ideas of what to do with that amount of money? In what way does this differ from "corporations taking over the world"? Money already controls SL. The only difference right now is that several people are not really impressed with money, and so are not easily "bought off". But I'm quite sure that someone who'd be willing to lease 40 sims from the Lindens would be able to much more than that - like prioritize feature requests

I personally know someone who spent as much (or perhaps even more!) to bring business into SL

As someone who works as a freelance marketing consultant for an inworld company, I'll sure mention Jacqueline's proposal to them, and I expect that the board of directors will issue stock at SLEX in the near future, too.

Lawyers in SL? Oh yeah, there already are a few, that same SL company I work for has a legal consultant. Besides advice and setting up contracts, he's also used as a "moderator" between conflicts. If you can't agree with him, you can still appeal to the Lindens, of course. Expect more lawyers to appear soon

SL is not really a "game", but it isn't Utopia. If it were, it wouldn't be neither challenging, nor fun. Quoting myself on another thread, if I just like putting up some prims and scripted objects for my friends to have some fun with, I'd download a copy of ActiveWorlds instead BUT to enjoy the struggle across a rather complex society, well, that's why SL is here

And to see the future of SL's society in motion... well, join the Neualtenburg Project

Remember, there are still chaotic and anarchic places all over SL, and that will remain for a looooong while. But some spots in SL, to quote Ulrika, "are organizing the world"

I'm not sure i'm understanding Gwyneth, are you saying that someone has actually brought into SL L$10M?

And that you also know someone who has spent that much to bring business into SL?

I don't really have an opinion about coprorations in SL one way or the other, and I'm too lazy to catch up on the whole thread. I just wanted to say that that's a brilliant quote and I couldn't agree more with it

Uh... I kinda thought that "struggle" was something inherently not enjoyable. But what do i know?

What about struggling with womenzez? *snickers* Dat can be fun, no?

God save the Queen. If SL has multinational corporations with biomechanical schemes put into place, then the simscape will be that much more cyberpunk.

I didn't say that someone brought L$ 10M into SL, but that someone spent around L$ 10M to bring RL business into SL.

Sorry if I sound vague, I'm actually ethically bound not to reveal much more. The persion in question is probably reading these posts and may wish (or not) to explain the arrangement better.

I agree as much too.

Although we must be careful in what we actually bring into SL from RL. I've always thought to myself that the main problem with the world are not it's different religions, neither it's different economy models, neither it's different ethnic communities... th problem with the real world is the greedyness of it's inhabitants, more or less. Corporations are an interesting thing to bring into SL, if they aren't already (I'm only a month old) but careful defining of TOS and TOU must be assured so that our cool-fun for all metaverse doesn't turn into one with poverty lines and social restrainment.