SOS Bets Linden Labs Will Crack

Hermit Barber: "Linden Labs Leapt to Some Faulty Conclusions, Made Statements that Cannot Easily Retract and Have Been Falling Over Themselves to Defend Ever Since"

Following SOS IPO's latest kick-off, with promises of gathering a budget of 10 million USD to take Linden Labs(LL) to court of law alleging illegal tiers raises on Open Space sims, an interview to Hermit Barber and IntLibber Bnt, two of the most visible faces in the SOS Grid Representation Foundation, was in order to check out how far this was really going to go and the answer was very clear: it is going through, there's no coming back. SOS is so confident on their arguments they even assured LL will back off and try to reach an agreement on tier raises before it goes to a court of law. Also, SOS believes the budget will be available by December...

Alessandra Narayan (AN) - You really believe this is action is going to court of law or LL will re-think the raise of tiers?

IntLibber BnT (IB) - At some point their risk insurers will tell them to settle and compromise. We think that will happen, at some point along the line. It could be when we finish the IPO and LL sees were putting our money where our mouths are. It could be when we file for an injunction to stop them from implementing the policy. They may drag it out to the very end.

Hermit Barber (HB) - I think that LL management is entrenched in their decision. They leapt to some faulty conclusions, made statements that cannot easily retract and have been falling over themselves to defend ever since. I think that there are numerous grounds on which this set of actions should be taken to court if LL doesn't back down, and I think that LL management will feel that they can't back down. So I think it's entirely probable that we are headed in that direction. The good news is that when it happens they will have to discuss the situation with their insurers. And I am fairly confident that that will result in their insurers telling them to settle before it gets worse.

AN - Has someone from LL contacted you inworld?

IB - Well LL generally doesn't contact me directly.

AN - But?

IB - I can say that I have talked to lindens unofficially who disagree with their policy. There is significant opposition inside the lab.

AN - And what about you, Hermit?