But, I am feeling increasingly like a line from a rather famous poem:

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller.

We need to speak up!

Here is the Zee quote in question:

“There’s a bunch of things that I and others on the team are thinking about including: simplifying the tier structure on the mainland, having differential upload prices, charging people who are carrying excessive amounts of inventory, accepting Lindens in lieu of monthly fees, and increasing the spread on the LindeX to enable other exchanges to thrive. All of these things are difficult to figure out and implement.”

Some of us remember the exploit where source code could be read. I can’t remember all of the details, but I know the source code for the Seburo, I think most of the ATMs and a few others were published. SL acted to protect the scripters that day.

But there are rumours, and they are only rumours at the moment, of an “inventory tax.” That will hit all the content creators for sure, but just maybe the scripters worst. I dread to think how big my inventory is, but my current project has three scripted objects that interact, and about a dozen related scripts and is building to about 30 textures (almost all of which are for buttons and things displayed by the scripts). The project before that, 1 object, no new textures, 7 scripts (plus older versions that I stored for a while). I rarely dabble in making clothes and things, but recently did some for a friend. I ended up with one texture and one clothes item – although at points as I was sorting it I uploaded many more times than that. An inventory tax will hurt the clothes makers, the house builders etc. no doubt, but I wonder just how many other scripters have the builds/boxes just like a builders, the textures AND the scripts floating around just like me? Whilst they remain rumours I’ll continue to consider burning Zee in efigy… if they become fact the lights will go out really quickly.

You will have to buy another block for coding by pressing a button in the code editor.

But unfortunately I don’t know how much they will charge.

… ok ok … just kidding, but who knows? First land barons, than content creators … now scripters.