well, here’s goes a re-write:

This poses another question: The author goes to great lenghs to explain (or better, to insist) that having an empty corporate building in SL amounts to a big bowl of nothing. it’s true. it’s true business and commerce wise. but is that any reason to quit second life? If there were no corporations in the real world, would he honorably commit hara-kiri? is corporate presence a reason to live, in SL or RL?

I think this all issue comes down to this: here is a guy who made no friends in SL, the didn’t bonded with anyone. here is a guy that taken away the oportunity to do business within a community…leaves. I think that’s sad, because it misses the whole point os SL: community, making friends, reaching out to people far and wide. it saddens me that yet again, a guy in a suit (let a lone a former edior of the economist) fails to understand that there is no way in a cold dark hell anyone (including his border-line genious self) is going to sell anything in an envionment they don’t understand.