Chris Car

I just read here that Second Life starts to cash money for inhabitants who want to use their real name within Second Life. At the moment you have to choose a fixed second name from a drop down box (like my Second Life name: “Noh”). The first name can be chosen freely at the moment (mine is “Ioobe Noh”).

But I don’t like to pay for using my real name in Second Life. I already pay for the land which I own. That’s fair enough.

I guess if Second Life - or Linden Lab, the company behind - will invent more ways to cache the people, it will get less interesting for many inhabitants. It could be that one day, people start build their own virtual world software and everyone can create an island by just installing a server software or just a client software, and they are there, without paying an additional fee. I don’t pay to use the Apache web server, why not having a free and open source virtual world server, connected to the other million servers of other inhabitants?

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