Your2ndPlace

When Sarah Nerd posted about cheating on Second Life, I paid attention. I'd never heard of Project Entropia before.

I tried it out, or tried to try it out - when it got down to 5 out of 10 for a review, I gave up on it. First of all, it is a Microsoft only space. That got it losing 1 point for not supporting Mac, another for not supporting Linux, and another for not supporting both. I'm sorry, there are too many Linux and Apple users out there for a system to not support them by design. Then the less than informative downloading of stuff just took forever and left me wondering what the heck it was doing. Sorry, when you hit 5 points lost before I even load a client for a virtual world, something is wrong.

What made it's impression on me the most, though, was that they only supported Microsoft. While Linden Lab is often criticized for the issues related to their Linux client - perhaps the Mac client as well - they at least have them for Second Life. And since I'm writing about the greater global metaverse over here, from taking stock of technology to issues of policy including patents, copyrights and trademarks, it was disturbing to come across a virtual world which discriminates based on what operating system you use.

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