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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I am not aware of Linden sponsoring any academic institutions or research projects. However, they do make free land available for one off time-limited educational activities. I considered that as a taster to attract deeper (paying) involvement, but perhaps it is part of a larger marketing strategy?<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>helen varley jamieson <<a href="helen@creative-catalyst.com">helen@creative-catalyst.com</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="helen@creative-catalyst.com">helen@creative-catalyst.com</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:22:04 +1300<BR>
<B>To: </B>'idc' <<a href="idc@mailman.thing.net">idc@mailman.thing.net</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [iDC] The SL Unleashing.<BR>
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linden must also benefit enormously from all the academic research <BR>
that's been done into/around SL; i wonder, does linden fund/sponsor <BR>
anything, or are the universities/researchers paying for their land etc <BR>
as well as donating the research?<BR>
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helen<BR>
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<a href="ricardo@ambriente.com">ricardo@ambriente.com</a> wrote:<BR>
> Hello Everyone,<BR>
><BR>
> I'm not on Second Life although I'm one of those people who created an<BR>
> avatar long ago and didn't return to it.<BR>
><BR>
> I'm writing now, because when I read about critical artists using SL, I'm<BR>
> dumbfounded by the lack of criticality toward Linden Lab, their treatment<BR>
> toward employees and that artists using SL are uncritically contributing<BR>
> to a commercial product with questionable ethics.<BR>
><BR>
> I'm largely writing from the position of an educator who has seen<BR>
> talented, young students eagerly take jobs with Linden Lab only to be<BR>
> overworked and underpaid - taken advantage of for lack of professional<BR>
> experience. Linden Lab has a history of hiring young talented college<BR>
> graduates, paying them a low salary and demanding well over 8 hours a day.<BR>
> Kids stick with the job, because they think it will lead them somewhere. <BR>
> I find this treatment of young artists entirely unethical. And it's<BR>
> disappointing to here of critically engaged artists using a corporate<BR>
> platform without a critical perspective toward the corporation that they<BR>
> are playing tribute to by contributing to its environment and popularity<BR>
> while it mistreats its employees.<BR>
><BR>
> ricardo<BR>
><BR>
> <BR>
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