Duncan Riley from TechCrunch recently had a little time to speak with Chris Collins from Linden Lab, where Mr. Collins holds the intriguing title "Technical Assistant to the CEO". I'm not entirely clear on what exactly that position entails, but more substantially, he's also responsible for the LindeX, the currency exchange service in Second Life.Mr. Riley took this opportunity to pose some strong questions to Mr. Collins, which got some pretty tepid and by-the-book answers. Unfortunately, this is typical of LL, which usually sticks to saying things like 'we're working on it', and 'it's not easy'. Well, sure, this is a given. If it were easy, not only would everyone be doing it, but it probably wouldn't be worth doing. But when you're given a chance to give some definitive answers to questions a lot of people are asking, it behooves you to provide something more. Otherwise, why do an interview?
LL is already way out there in terms of being ahead of its time, challenging frontiers, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to let the people who truly care about SL in on a few things, O Lindens? Chances are we'd be a lot more understanding and cut you all a lot more slack when things go wrong, as they so frequently do. Remember: your residents are a passionate crowd, and we only scream so loud because we love SL so much. Give us the truth; we can handle it.
