Name owning is never good anyway

As for the LL managed grid in some years it indeed might fit into what Linden Lab wants to have but if it will be successful is another question. IMHO better for Linden Lab would be if they would try more to keep the community together instead of alienating parts of it as they do right now. Everybody would benefit from that.

I have often thought of the term Second Life as a way of describing the community itself.

I’m sure Linden Lab would ( quite legally and rightly ) disagree and say it is the name of their product offering.

I think the thing we now think of as the “community” will spread, and inhabit areas of the wider Grid which may not adhere to the requirements of the Linden business model. However I’m not sure if this will culturally positive for the “official” SL Grid itself, although I suspect it may be positive for achieving Linden’s desired business model.

Will segments of the community who do this be Patriots – or Pioneers staking out new territory across the opengrid frontiers ? What does this mean in terms of fragmentation of the community of Second Life, something fostered through 5 years of intricately linked environmental, economic and social development ? These questions are concerning, but I retain hope through the rigour and integrity of discussion – both in SL and across blogs / twitter.