@dandellion last-before-last: *lol*

@prok: we <3 you. (this time without any extra tries. *sends more flowers*)

Your idea of what it means for an economy to be “ok” will be ideologically driven by your Extroprianism or whatever it is your ideology is. You can say anybody has an ideology, but mine isn’t as rigid, looking for signs and rules and memes. I can concede the need for social responsibility that anarcho-capitalists can never concede as they believe it harms freedom. I can say that freebies should be sold without fear as it will help the newbie economy, even though the creator fascists will screech that this is “theft” (then…don’t put it on sell/transfer then). And so on. The definition of what is “ok” will vary.

…. I mean, long, confessional posts? do you know the time it takes to read them? And then it comes commenting, and all the follow ups, and…

*winks*

…Can I take back the question as a clear case of misunderstanding?

Prokofy, nothing is wrong with land barons. They do an important service in the community and get payed for that. Problem is that land has fixed price and there is no free market if one set of items has fixed price.
And that was the point of this clarification, I am not hunting bad guys nor trying to declare good guys. Nor I wanted to start a witch hunt, though it seems that many were ready to fight their own imaginary battles.
Question was if our economy is ok, if it can be better and what we can do about it.

I don’t think that freebies are bad for the economy. They actually improves the look of our world. Also, they are keeping a few newbies more on the grid.

Who pays for my game? Which game we are talking about? Second life? Or game of this operating system and free software that runs on my hardware? Or the game called “my first life”?

Indeed, Linden Lab’s very business model, which makes this entire enchilada possible, is based on the premise that land costs something because server hardware and programmers’ time costs something.

Excessive freebies are the bane of SL existence and harm most of all the newbie-to-newbie economy that could thrive and create much more opportunity for people starting if these condescending and controlling oldbies and midbies didn’t flood every market with their free non-mod non-transfer junk.

If it is on transfer, then it should indeed be resold to create value, and anyone who puts a freebie on transfer must assume it will be sold and not kvetch about it.

This copyleft stuff that all software has to be free is silly, because somebody always has to pay.

Who pays for *your* game?

Maybe I helped centering in that impression by citing the “bullshit” phrase, and using it for getting open source in the lot, even if I only did at your comments. And not, I am not starting again about open source. I don’t worry too much about it, or freebies, but about the holiness that seems to surround it; I tend to get annoyed when people say, “It is good, and that’s all”.

And I insist, I am not going about it again! Please, let us forget about it :-p.

I agree with your need off letting things clear, but I doubt that anybody who took the effort to read your post should get other impresion that the one you stated there, and now here.

Now, about you “being a bitch sometimes”, when and how? I feel curious :-)