On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Anna Simpson <[email protected]>wrote:
> PauAmma wrote:
>
> > At some point, people will probably want to trade them (privately) for
> > "official" currencies. It's probably a very good idea to state that
> > Dreamwidth will not attempt to enforce that if someone changes their mind
> > or breaks their word (either I didn't transfer money to your Paypal
> > account after you transferred the thingies to me, or the reverse).
>
> More than that, I think that it would be a good idea for Dreamwidth to
> explicitly make selling points against the ToS and a bannable offence.
> I think it's about the minimum required to persuade the tax office that
> it isn't a real currency (and therefore liable to tax, etc).
>
> love
> Anna
>
--
I can see the logic of that .. but how on earth does Linden labs pull it off
then? and if they can, why can't we?
... because having an actual currency is kinda cool I think...
Silicon.shaman
Subversives 'R' Us
Cogito ergo periculosus,
[ I think, therefore I'm dangerous ].
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