What's going on over at Linden Labs?
Cory Ondrejka, Second Life CTO, submitted his resignation on Tuesday and will be leaving the game's parent company Linden Labs at the end of this year. The reasons given by Second Life CEO Phillip Rosedale for Ondrejka's departure range from "strategic differences" to ''the needs of our company are changing, and the role of CTO, or technical lead, has also evolved...''.
Things don't seem to be going all that well for Second Life these days. Technical problems have been plaguing the game, hackers and greifers have been ruining everyone's good time, and with the Yankee Groups study showing that Second Life is mostly hype because on average people only spend 12 minutes a month in the game, this could be the begining of the end for the user-created pervert heaven that we've all grown to know and love. Say it ain't so Linden, say it ain't so.
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But it is true that the service is plagued with technical outages, and database problems. It's amazing to hear the CTO got fed up and left. And the line about "our needs have evolved" is just horsecrap.