On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote:
> The whole "resource / payment / number of prims" as function of land > area is nonsense to begin with. > > Virtual land area costs NOTHING whatsoever. The reason that LL lets > you pay for land is because that system brings them more money > than when land would be free and you have to pay only for prims. > > Virtual land do have real costs!. There are electrical costs, actual servers and physical san that cost money, support cost. As far as I know, Linden do not get free network connection to the internet. An Linden employees don't work for free. > THAT would have been an honest system however: let everyone have > their own private tropical island (which costs nada), and only > let them pay for the actual resources (memory and cpu time) that > they use. > > A cloud computing fee structure would be nice, but the current OS will have to be rewritten. Right now, a sim takes alot of resources even if noones visit it for months. In SL a tree falling in a forest and no one is around does make a sound.
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