"After about four months as interim CEO, working closely with Bob Komin, the management team, and the board, we've decided we are ready to start the search for a new CEO. I'll be leaving day-to-day management of the company and continuing in my role on the board, including helping in the search to find a great CEO. I will also be continuing my work with my new company, LoveMachine. Bob will lead Linden Lab while we conduct the search. It's been an intense few months of transition, and we all feel like we are in a better place now, with a clearer sense of direction and more focus, and are ready to bring someone new into the mix as a leader."
Philip, my darling Philip, how could you do this to me! I should think Bob is a great man, but I do not yet have the same trust in him as I have in you - and now you make the trust I placed in you seem totally misplaced.
My trust in Philip cam from him being "the original dreamer", than man who made my beautiful Second Life possible. I counted on him to understand who we - the day-to-day users experienced our world and what improvement and changes were necessary to make our experience better - more fast, fun ad easy.m I really do feel a bit betrayed, Philip, I also know the OutWorldzers and "Bastians" will ridicule me now for my belief and trust in you, that makes it even more heavy.
I don´t know Bob Komin at all, he really may be a perfectly decent guy, but I have no hopes stuck to him yet and no trust. I have to try sleep on this terrible news...
