According to an interview with LL's Vice president of Product development, Cory Ondrejka, on Nvidia's site, a system for that is being developed for the following year, a system that LL is putting together:
nZone: Can you give away some of the future plans for Second Life--things that may not be implemented yet, but Linden Lab is working on?
CO: [....] Also, we've announced that we're working on a port for Macintosh OS X, with a Linux version to follow.What`s the date on this? I`ve been using the Linux Client for over 24 weeks as of this writing, and I know people who have been using it for longer. This obviously predates even the Mac client, which is clearly well-established. Where are the "self-governance" tools? ...or am I misunderstanding? The enhanced groups stuff? Wonderful, but not suitable for "self-governance tools". The other things mentioned, I`ve seen stuff that might be what he`s talking about....or might not be. Kinda hard to tell, sometimes.
Don`t get me wrong. The toy may be badly broken [and it is], but it`s still a wonderful toy!
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Llauren Mandelbrot
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11-08-2006 11:19
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Conan Godwin
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11-09-2006 05:31
Hi: Myself and few others have been talking about a regulating body for SL. I have been thinking about this since I've joined SL few weeks ago. I am not talking about a people run government (not yet). That sort of body is not ready for SL at this point. However I am at this point (first step) talking about a Regulating Body to regulate certain businesses that can have negative impact on residents. How do we know that Casinos and other gambling booths in SL are actually paying out what they claim? Who is actually going to regulate them in SL? How about those one off slot machines that you run into and burn your money? How about those camping chairs? I am in the mist of putting together a policy document to start a regulating body. If you are interested in being part of it or to provide input, please IM me. We can also discuss here as to why we need such body in SL. What do you think? Do we need a SL Authority to regulate certain businesses and even Linden's own policys? Do we need to regulate them so we don't see Gambling and slots machines next to your neighbourhoood? Regulate them so it does not pop up everywhere? Yes this model will allow the body to generate revenue that can be shared with the board members. Looking forward to a hot discussion on this. There is a government. It's called Linden Labs. Hey, we chose to live in a dictatorship - unlike most RL dictatorships, we have the choice to leave if we don't like it. I think the aim of the SL exercise is to show a natural free market, completely unfettered by regulation, with human nature as it's only guiding moral compass. Ironically, SL is a whole lot more natural than any other system of government ever tried in RL. I'm not necessarily saying that's a good thing, or a bad thing - just a thing. |