Comments on: Cory Linden Leaves Second Life

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Is Linden Research Broken? « Arifi Saeed on The Virtual Decade (2010-2020) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:18:07 +0000

[...] passed under the bridge this past year. Recently, there have been serious changes at Linden Labs. Cory Linden left on December 13, 2007, just over a month after I started work in SL. Now, three months later, on [...]

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Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:28:48 +0000

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By: dusanwriter

dusanwriter — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:55:28 +0000

As reported on CNET, (http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9832840-52.html) Philip and Cory no longer saw eye-to-eye. For how long this was the case I have no idea, and certainly the most recent spate of problems with the Grid hardly led to the termination. I find it hard to imagine Philip pulling out his hair and screaming “My gawd! Our residents can’t teleport! That’s unacceptable! You’re fired!”

Whether the purported e-mail from Philip to staff is true, there is little difference between the e-mail:

“Cory and I have differences in how we think Linden should be run, differences that in the past few months have become irreconcilable.”

and the official release:
“Therefore, Cory and I are in agreement that our paths, at this point in time at least, lie in different directions.”

The bottom line is there’s a “T” in CTO, and the CTO needs to work with the CEO. Which vision is right and which skill set is best suited to taking SL into the next phase of its evolution will only become clear in time or if Linden can do a better job communicating a broader set of priorities other than platitudes and Windlight.

Cory leaving did not result in the grid failures of the past few months, but an overall lack of coherence, performance, and sufficient progress did. This leaves it in Philip’s hands to bring his team into alignment with whatever his vision is and hope that it’s the right one.

Having said all that I also agree with Kabalyero – TP and grid issues don’t particularly phase me. This is messy, evolving, prototyping, mucky (excuse the pun) fun. Linux had Linus and Linden had Cory under Philip’s direction. Messy is good. Messy is chaos and chaos is the friend of creation. But please please can I have my inventory back?

By: kabalyero

kabalyero — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:13:25 +0000

The problems with SL has nothing to do with it. It’s already a part of Second Life. Without problems, it wouldn’t be SL.

By: Mace

Mace — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:42:37 +0000

The in world issues have ZERO to do with the CTO stepping down. If you had followed the various posts/blogs and read up a bit more It would be really obvious that there are obviously managment issues and Corey even stated that he and the CEO simply do not see eye to eye on priorities or the directions SL is going.