Fri, 25/06/2010 - 13:28
Big news today: M Linden is to step down as CEO, and Philip is to return in that role:
Our thinking as a team is that my returning to the CEO job now can bring a product and technology focus that will help rapidly improve Second Life. We need to simplify and focus our product priorities -- concentrating all our capabilities on making Second Life easier to use and better for the core experiences that it is delivering today.
Find more info in the official announcement and in Philip's Blogpost.
So what's your take on this news? Doom and gloom? Or rather happyness and rainbows?
Fri, 25/06/2010 - 18:48
#2
what puzzles me is that they now see the old phil as their savior, while I seem to remember he was equally despised before :-)
Fri, 25/06/2010 - 19:06
#3
I guess that compared with M, Philip is remembered as the 'visonary', the one who thought SL up and build it while with M, the ugly face of greed and profit-first thinking showed up in SL. Or at least it has so in the interpretation of what Ms rule brought to SL.
So despite the fact that everything was by far not ideal before M took over, now the change is felt like a return to what SL was before all those upsetting policy changes.
And many people have not experinced the laggy, buggy, failing and crashing SL form before two years ago, so the tales of Philips rule might be lboated to the usualy 'it was all better before' tale with everything bad being reinterpreted and forgotten.
On the other side, this is the rise in faith and support Philip can now use to repair a lot of the damage for LLs reputation that happened in the last two years. However only, if he decides to do so.

It depends on who is asked .. the cheering crowds are all falling over themselves for Phillip often forgeting that it was him who put M in charge himself and while I think, that Phillip does deserve a second chance and that the current uplift in resident spirits (people are having parties over Ms disapearence) can be a great support for future policy decissions when the old problems are avoided ... miscomunicaiton with the residents .. faild understanding of SL itself .. the feeling of comapny side greed winning over longer term market stability ...
It all depends on LL and what they will do with the new situation.