Is Philip Linden really leaving?

Is Linden Lab losing their vision, or at least their visionary? Without his resident visionary, will Linden Lab develop Second Life® further to reach the goal of becoming “a marketplace that could sustain hundreds of millions of players” and “[…] connect us all to an online world that advances the human condition“?

… what’s going on with Second Life?

These are some questions I’ve written about on my other blog.