while an actual lab employee like jack is probably the best reference for this... i can provide a little bit of history. keep in mind that this relies on some neurons that haven't been exercised in a bit, so i could have some of the facts wrong.
so back in the day linden created openspace/void sims. the idea was that you were only supposed to put a certain amount of stuff on them. the deal was that instead of running 1 region per core, they were running something like 3 or four regions per core (can't really remember, but it was > 1 regions per core in any event.) if i remember correctly, the agreement with openspace sim owners was that they would use the sims very lightly and wouldn't exceed a certain number of prims per openspace region. but for reasons i never learned, linden never implemented prim restrictions for openspace sims. so even though you were only supposed to have some small number of prims in an openspace sim, the system let you go over that limit. so guess what happened? yes, that's right, people started putting a lot of prims on sims hosted on overloaded cores. some sim owners even went so far as to rent out openspace sims to people without mentioning the fact that their new virtual parcels were hosted on CPUs that were a touch overtaxed. eventually the community figured out what was going on and complained. the more scrupulous land barons were making the argument: "hey, i'm following the rules here and only renting out parcels on full sims, but these other bozos are undercutting my business by breaking the rules. what gives?" so linden says "okay, we're raising the price on openspace sims" in an effort to make it less profitable for people renting out void sims. then people complain and linden says, "fine, we're going to get rid of openspace sims all-together!" and then the community says, "ORLY?" and linden says, "no, we were just kidding." eventually they settled on the idea of "okay, you can have an openspace sim, but only if you have a regular sim." i think that's also when linden changed the name from "openspace" or "void" to "homestead". the "homestead" sim product offering was, as i remember it, a compromise mostly for sim owners who were using them in the way linden thought they were supposed to be used. so, fwiw, that's how we got to where we are (as i remember it.) with respect to losing all your stuff when a sim owner evaporates (or the sim changes hands.) IRL, if i'm renting from someone, i have certain protections (depending on the jurisdiction.) but if i have a lease agreement with someone and my landlord sells the property, there's usually a period of time where the new owner has to honor the lease. if the property is condemned, most counties (as i understand it) give residents fair notice. the amount of notice and whether the clock starts ticking before or after the final condemnation order varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. but the idea is you're not supposed to be thrown out on your rear overnight. it would be "really cool(tm)" if there was some way to enforce that in the SL server software. so if a sim owner isn't paying their bills to LL, the tenants on the sim would be notified. depending on how the lab manages sim foreclosure these days, that might be a reasonable warning. also, i've got to think that under this system, landlords that pay their tier on time would be able to charge a mild premium over those that don't as there's one less hassle in dealing with them. ultimately, IMHO, i hope we move to a system where the authoritative copy of your content is not actually stored on linden servers, but on some other "backup" server; linden just caches it. or maybe we could do the OpenSim region backup thing, but let parcel owners do the same thing. there's a lot of work to implement such a system; in a world where linden manages the copy protection, it might require the use of encrypted blobs in people's backups. but a girl can dream... -- meadhbh hamrick * it's pronounced "maeve" @OhMeadhbh * http://meadhbh.org/ * ohmead...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Brian McGroarty <s...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Aleric Inglewood > <aleric.inglew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So one day I have a home, my own island where I live and >> did built and work on for more than a year. Which is full of >> objects of my dead partner that I can use but not Take Back >> (no help from LInden Lab here either of course), and the >> next -poof- offline. Not because *I* didn't pay, but because >> LInden Lab doesn't give a shit about me, or my money. >> Or it's customers. > > I hate that this has happened, and I don't know the reason why the full > region prerequisite exists so I can't say if it makes sense. > > I don't think you've exhausted the concierge options, though. I'll follow up > off-list, given that this is definitely way off topic. > > -- > Brian McGroarty | Linden Lab > Sent from my Newton MP2100 via acoustic coupler > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
