> And Second Life is owned by a single, proprietary interest. Linden Lab's/Phillip Rosedale's stated goal was world economy creation. Second Life is to be thou

> And Second Life is owned by a single, proprietary interest. Linden Lab's/Phillip Rosedale's stated goal was world economy creation. Second Life is to be thought of as a web protocol that is undergoing standardization, and is stated to become fully open-source when that standard is finalized. >And that's great, but that's not the Web. Well, 'There', the predecessor to Second Life which created most of the control scheme concepts and user content creation schemas that were employed in Second Life was actually a technology demonstration between a collaboration of Forterra Systems and the US Army for private training simulation and remote work. If a system which was co-created by a defense group eventually becoming standardized for public use isn't 'the Web', I don't know what is.