Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, companies with more than 100 employees are typically required to give a 60-day notice of a pending mass layoff or closure. Failure to do so is grounds for a... you guessed it.. class action lawsuit.

And no ethereal, the incompetence in virtual world business that has been exhibited with such fisacos as have lined up since Kingdon took over have no bearing on content creation. In fact there is no outward appearance that SL is doing anything but growing unless Linden Lab has been outright lying with it's metrics and reports to the public. So if LL is planning to close up suddenly then it would likely be a failed attempt to escape 2 pending class action lawsuits.

In the meantime there are alternatives to SL getting going. Inworldz looks promising. some new thing called 3dchat.com is there for the real lifer homophobes that want to be sure the person they are pixelating with used actual real life identity data at sign up. Doesn't mean it is not a poser using fake real info but there you go.

Things do not point at a sudden closure with the observed grid growth going on. So it is interesting indeed. Oh and what about the entire US Air Force was going to be using Second Life Enterprise? Wouldn't it be nuts to shut down with such lucrative contracts in play?

Perhaps LL has something else to run from we have not heard about yet. Makes no sense.