An obvious way you can tell that Zee Linden's parting with the Lab wasn't a happy one is that he was instantly deleted from the Search People list (you can see dredge him up from Search/All).

Lindens who don't part on bad terms, even if fired, who are considered still to be of value, get to keep their accounts, and indeed, those accounts are turned to their real names (Robin Harper, Cory Ondrejka).

Other Lindens who leave but aren't somehow in some clash with top management linger in the list for awhile until somebody finally thinks to remove them.

I wonder what this was really about.

Zee is remember for three things:

o island price hikes in 2006
o sudden VAT charge
o openspace price hikes in 2008

In other words, he appears to have been responsible for the largest popular rebellions of residents.

Zee had an interesting take on SL and a lot of useful knowledge to impart about it, but at the end of the day, he seemed to have a cut-throat way of making money, which was suddenly jacking up prices very high, to much anger.

But I bet that's not why he parted company with the Lab. I'm also wondering if this fabulous profitability being talked about is contingent only on these harsh price jack-ups periodically.