Allow me, even if the context interests me little, I have met the owner of AvatarLife and I am aware that Dex, who was the technician of Avitron, actually works there.
I didn't want to intervene until I read something inappropriate or somehow personally relevant to me, so I'll tell you, I felt like making some remarks, not because OpenLife is unquestionably right (because honestly, some attacks are exaggerated), but because this time his post intrigued me.
As a grid owner, I tell you:
It's true that not all grids are perfectly compliant with the law, especially those created at home or out of simple passion, but they don't profit from this.
If you profit, you'll agree with me that you're subject, especially for gambling, to certain rules based on the country where you're legally based. Indeed, there's no corporate reference on your website (you'll probably fix this soon, I know, now you've been warned and you'll try to protect yourself), unlike the largest grid, Wolf Grid by Lone, which is not only the most advanced at the moment but also has a solid legal basis with declared companies and much more. Also in Italy (I am Italian), there is Craft, which answers to a company and is perfectly compliant, but we can also mention OSGrid and other grids with clear positions and legal frameworks. And this doesn't disadvantage friendly grids at all since they don't profit anyway.
Taking free content from Opensim and locking it within AvatarLife is not a fair attitude towards the community, while opening Hypergrid and only blocking some content might have been more appropriate.
From personal experience, I tell you that having a region listed here where you invite people to your grid but don't allow them to visit via Hypergrid makes me think that OpenLife is right... you shouldn't even be listed.
I know Sushant, surely a good person, but his primary commitment is probably to pay people like you, and that explains the nature of your comment - it's clearly an advertisement. Also, remember that every grid owner is committed to their own... it's not just Sushant doing it.
I confirm that you try to imitate ideas from others, which is not inherently wrong, but the result is really embarrassing because imitation is never like the original.
You released your own version of Firestorm; publish its source code and start respecting the laws from there, don't violate the licenses.
Please respond to Openlife explaining the RNG story, I'm curious about it: how do you connect the RNG to an LSL-written VLT slot? How is it verified online by the authority responsible for control? Is it a valid certificate? Is it real? This is of technical interest to me because in the environment where I indulge, chess programming, there is a programmer working at Novomatic, and speaking to him, someone here can confirm, he explained to me that the games, the management of both online and real servers, the combinations, the payouts, and pay-ins are all registered and supervised by responsible authorities; in Italy, for example, there is Sogei, if I remember correctly, so they are not independent crypts and are not connected to control authorities. But I'm curious about this and would like to understand more.
Really, believe me, there are dozens of grids that give away regions to increase user numbers, but this doesn't mean you're the best or the most frequented. You've just said, "we give away regions, users come, we give them free things in Opensim that we take and they stay here, we pay for the rest to stay and create content". Wolf Grid by Lone doesn't do this, it doesn't give away regions; it's a truly immense and stable grid, the same goes for OSGrid, it doesn't give away regions and yet it has thousands of users, the same goes for others like Craft or Astralia, AviVerse, etc.
And just to clarify, my grid is located as a server in Italy and is owned servers (not rented from OVH or other hosting companies, except for domains) and complies with Italian and European laws... all of them, so much so that we have also removed the internal currency to avoid problems (which instead WTG can do because it is compliant on that too), so even you are commenting with not quite appropriate phrases.
Honestly, we hope to soon open our Italian base in WTG, on which we are working, because it gives us a lot of confidence as well as an unparalleled technical department.
Sushant knows these things well because I told him directly, especially when he came to AviVerse... honestly, if I could go back, I wouldn't let him set foot in my platform.
Also, remember that Linden Lab lives on users and the revenue they generate, including games, so if Linden has removed certain gaming machines or other systems, it's to avoid legal problems.
Greetings and good luck, especially good luck.
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