[sldev] [META] How LL can profit from open source

[Kamilion]

On 9/18/07, Dale Glass <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:38:56AM -0700, Kamilion wrote:
> > Sooo, at the moment, LL gets a big fat $0 a month from me. And I get
> > quite a nice chunk of money back from it. :D
>
> That doesn't mean that they don't earn anything due to your activity
> though. They get money every time somebody buys L$ to pay you, as well
> as every time you exchange the L$ for cash if you do that.

Other people buying L$ to pay me doesn't matter, because it's not
'from me' as I described.
Plus SLExchange also allows people to pay with USD directly.

> If you don't sell your L$ you probably use some of it to buy from
> somebody else, which in many cases will ultimately pay tier, get
> converted to USD, etc.

Actually, I pull all of it out via paypal directly through SLExchange.
AFAIK no SL transfers happen from this process, it's all completely
within SLExchange's database.
I don't make any purchases in SL other than the L$10 upload charge for assets.
Everything rendered on my avatar or attached to it other than my free
Mystitool radar, I uploaded myself. I havn't changed clothes in over a
year now. (In SL, not in RL ;)

So, for 3 years of nearly constantly being on SL, LL has managed to
obtain, from me, a value not exceeding L$3000 for all the asset
uploads. Ergo, over 3 years, a $10 outlay from me, has returned with
enough income that I'm required by US law to file taxes on, a new
laptop, a virtual private linux server running gentoo for over a year,
and provided me with uncounted hours of communication with other
people to the point where my long-standing IRC addiction is gone.
(I've been an IRC user since 1993, with close to 24/7 connection. Now
my IRC friends are lucky if they see me for over 5 minutes in 365 days
;)

Kind of hard to be mad at a service that's saved me from poverty, even
if it IS a little buggy.
Long live LL, Free Seg!