In a month you're probably correct. In 12 months however there will likely be a number of viable alternatives available. LL need to sort themselves out before their userbase abandons them.

I said the same thing a year ago when the Lab screwed everyone who had bought an OpenSpace sim.

Others have said it about every other ass-raping or ill-planned action the Lab make... from stealing people's money by banning banking through to the land value collapses through to changing adult rules through verification.

No. Sorry. The crack addicted SL player will still be there and the crack addicted educator will too. How can you turn up a grant to actually get your crack for free?

That's because there were no viable alternative worlds for the addicts to get their hit. Very few addicts have the fortitude to go cold turkey. However, once serious competitors come online those that have been screwed by LL at least have the option of moving to them. Then you'll see substantial shifts in the market if LL continue to upset their customers. And wasn't the OpenSpaces debacle the kickstart for OpenSim?

Hmm "viable alternatives" right... :)

No, I don't think that the "push to OpenSim" was due to the OpenSpace debacle, but really because OpenSim starts to become a more mature technology :) (hey, my own OpenSim grid hasn't crashed in a couple of months! :) )

But I still think this is a case of the right hand of LL not knowing what the left hand is doing. Which is actually quite typical for LL; like most organisations, they have a certain failure to internally communicate things. This takedown notice by LL's lawyers should have been cleared by Pathfinder first, who obviously would yell at them "are you INSANE?". The problem is that the lawyers in this case most probably just got a list of every domain name with "SL" in it and sent a form letter to each one (yes, this is even possible to automate!). The last time I've checked, 2 years ago, there were over 5,000 sites which had "SL" in it, most of them totally unrelated to Second Life, but many certainly had a lot to do with SL. The lawyers might not even have seen the *content* of the site at all, or they would have noticed the disclaimer on the page...