It is completely outrageous what Linden is doing now, claiming that people are abusing the openspaces after they increased the prims for them and sold them for cheap. 10000's of these openspaces have been sold and people paid 100 USD each time to have a normal sim converted into openspaces in order to supply to the large demand for this type of land in Second Life. Today suddenly Linden wants more money so they increase the tier with 50 USD per month per openspace, in increase of 67% out of the blue. People will not be able to afford this and will dump the land they bought from Linden. The Second Life community is devastated with Linden's latest decision regarding openspaces and the scam of selling a product and changing the price without any reason after only 4 months of taking openspaces into use. A good thing more open grids are coming online these days like http://www.virtualworld.sl those are new worlds based on Opensim where people can find an affordable virtual life and this might well be the future for virtual worlds in general.