OK, first off, Phil, I'll take my own advice when I see YOU do anything close to what Jack or any of the Lindens have done. Have you created your own virtual world? I don't think so, or you wouldn't be here, in SL. Could you create a virtual world as lucrative and commercialized as SL? Again, probably not, or there would be 10 others just like it, just as lucrative. The only other Virtual World I know of thats even partially as lucrative as SL is Entropia, and it still does not generate the income that SL does. Maybe there are others I don't know about, but I don't search for them and try all of them out. Maybe I will one day when I have the time.
Second, I wasn't defending anyone. Did anyone see me defending someone? I think not. All I said was, in a nutshell, if you can do better, go do it. Sorry if my language curled your toenails, get over it.
Maybe I am "uninformed" about alot of things in SL, but I don't spend every waking moment in here either. I know what I read in this post, and no I don't like all the negative things being said, would you, if you were in Jacks position? I'll say I do see more positive feedback than I do negative, I'll give that props, but the negative comments just struck me as, you all slam him for doing what he could to make things better, probably to his best ability, just because it wasn't done in your time frame, or the way you thought it should have been done, you think he did a bad job. So I guess in your perfect little worlds you are perfect and you do everything the way it's supposed to be done? I think not, you are, after all, only human!
And one more thing Phil, read that last post you made again. Sounds like a double standard to me, It's ok for people to post their opinions; Positive, Negative, In-between. But yet my post was not "valid"? Just because I am a little "uninformed". Then enlighten me, please! Like you said, it's better to keep your thoughtless comments to yourself when you don't know what you are talking about.
HAPPY NEW YEAR