[sldev] Permissions

[Nicholaz Beresford]

Tao Takashi wrote:
> But as was obvious in the meeting yesterday, the copy problem seems to 
> be one of the main issues, at least for some. I haven't yet talked to 
> content creators how big they see that issue (and it might also need 
> some explanation and beside that an open grid of course offers a bigger 
> market and other opportunities than just problems).

I'm sure it would be close to impossible for LL to do away with
permissions as they are now.

If ever, I'd see this as a separate metasphere being based on
full-perm content, which would draw an entirely different type
of users/content creators and create a different atmosphere.

I remember an interview with Daniel Linden where he said that this
was how SL was envisioned but that it really got kick-started
when they entered real commerce.  That was sure good for LL because
people are willing to pay tier when they have the impression that
they can earn the money back, but independent of that I'm getting
increasingly annoyed by the whole atmosphere created through
content commerce and would probably do a lot more content in an
open-content themed world.


The thing I would want to see from Linden Labs is for once that
they get their permissions at least working as they are supposed
to.  I had at least three items in the last couple of weeks where
permissions I had were lost.

Another thing I'd like to see is a GPL style permission, that is
creating a full perm object that remains full perm and can't be
merged/linked/embedded into an less perm object.  I'd have a few
ideas how this could lead into sort of parallel universe, at lest
in terms of content.



Nick