Word: stevan
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...Linden won't discuss the merits of pending litigation, it's clear that Second Life's virtual assets have actual value. Linden lets users retain the rights to digital imagery they create on-site, and the result is a thriving economy that's as real as it gets. Attorney Stevan Lieberman made $20,000 last year helping Second Lifers file patents, trademarks and copyrights. And $6.8 million changed hands in June on the site's Lindex, where the exchange rate is about 270 Linden dollars to one U.S. dollar. Congress is looking into whether this commerce should be taxed...
Millions of telecommuters, of course, don't intend to wait for such an outcome. They have already set up quarters wherever they set down their laptops. "Today's office is an aging concept, 150 years old, that people have been hanging on to," argues Stevan Alburty, who runs WorkVirtual, an office-consulting shop. It's only a matter of time, telecommuting true believers claim, before city skyscrapers and suburban office parks are abandoned altogether, left as archaeological curiosities for future generations...