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Sarah Nerd

I hope whoever comes in has a real understanding of SL, and doesn't make any major changes that we aren't comfortable with. Bitch all you want about Rosedale, He brought this game to where it is today and had his heart invested in it. Will the next CEO have there heart in it or just view it as business business business?

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Ingrid

I think the idea is to get a real business-head in there. I'm sure Philip will still have a lot of sway though as to what happens.

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Sooz Pascale

I'm a lawyer. I deal with liars all the time. Watch his eyes. Watch his facial expressions. He's lying...and doing a damn poor job of it.

Sooz

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Stroker Serpentine

My Friends, I am officially announcing my candidacy for CEO. Upon election I will supply every constituent with a SexGen Suite and fire 2/3 of the current staff. I will task the FBI with dragging every content thief out of their mothers basements and I will institute an immediate public stock offering.

Surreal Farber will me my running mate. She knows how NOT to run a technology company. We can build on that together.

Oh, and we will graciously offer Flip and Taco cabinet positions. In the breakroom.

Beau Perkins

Maybe I should seek this position.

Manditory Bible study every Wednesday!

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Sarah Nerd

Free stuff! I'm totally in.

Io Zeno

I support this ticket.

Dancien Graves

I have to withold my endorsement for now. It depends on where BJ stands in the administration.

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Sarah Nerd

Maybe I should remain undecided until one or the other agrees I can be FIC, and get my islands delivered earlier and so on.

Dnate Mars

Honestly, I am not sure what to think right now. Changing CEOs in not always a good thing, even with all the current faults. I remember when Tom was left There. It was really the end of the development for There. The new CEO decided that they should use the technology for the military instead. They basically screwed all the users.

I am just going to wait and see. First the CTO gets the boot, now the CEO. Also, wasn't one of the reasons that Cory left was because of differences between him and Philip?

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Michael Bigwig

That all makes sense...on many different levels.

Phil doesn't want to be that person anymore, both personally, and for the benefit of SL. Putting a more business-oriented CEO in place will tighten up SL, and at the same time allow Phil to be more free with creative ideas and expansion.

As long as the new CEO doesn't take any of the goodness away from SL, tightening the bolts, and rationalizing the best growth for SL is a definite bonus.

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Moo Money

I would like to apply to be in charge of evening entertainment. Given how much Linden Lab staffers drink, both you and I know that this is very serious business.

Thunderclap

And what would be put into the contract is a provision you must would with the existing employees or be in material breach.
The Tao is cute and all but won't work with the big corps. However, there is nothing wrong with the people.
Think about this Khamon: what happens if it does sell. But it sells to a devout Christian organization? Or the scientologists? or some other group like EA?
Status Quo requires the the bulk of the people to remain.

Kristian

I'd like to remind everyone that their last inbound major management move gave us Zee 'my first act as a linden will be to piss everyone off' Linden.

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So poetry is dead again--& even if the mumia from its corpse retains some healing properties, auto-resurrection isn't one of them.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism. At any cost re-connect poetry to the body. Not crimes against bodies, but against Ideas (& Ideas-in-things) which are deadly & suffocating. Not stupid libertinage but exemplary crimes, aesthetic crimes, crimes for love. In England some pornographic books are still banned. Pornography has a measurable physical effect on its readers. Like propaganda it sometimes changes lives because it uncovers true desires. -- Hakim Bey, T.A.Z.

Dnate Mars

This is what I am hoping happens. It would be a very good thing for LL.

Thunderclap

There is one other thing, I want to mention. Gor as a whole was never authorized to exist in world. Now if I am wrong, then the statement is moot. However, if I am right, think about what happens when a new group discovers this.
I for one am hopeful that he choses someone he knows that can do the nuts and bolts while he continues with the current way SL exists.
Yes, Bugs need to be fixed. Yes, stability needs to increased.
But I believe that since the exit of Cory this have been happening and that he was the bottleneck. (why do I say that? Because in the WSJ article on Wagner Au's new book on SL it said that Cory viewed SL as a game platform while Phillip viewed it like a Holodeck)
However, I still say and so do most others that biggest problem was the opening of the gates. Things must change. Like because ways to handle content. Better protection against theft. A better permissions system. More robust scripting. Newer avatars. But above all that better customer service.
So here is to the hope a new tommorow where it is 'Bugs first, Shiny second, and the satified customers'!

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Former CEO of EA. I have seen what EA did to Origin when it bought it for Ultima Online.

Jennyfur

Two words:

Plastic Duck

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