This is an interesting article. As some of you may know I have been evolving my own Grid into now what it is as Project COSIE. I think the hypergrid itself is seeing a metamorphasis from what had been goodwill open source model (donation based), to being more consumer (commercial) based.
One effort I was kinda sad to see fall by the wayside was the FreeOpenSim grid. I mean I was honestly looking forward to an open grid that I could park some regions on. I would have been willing to donate to something like that as I have done in the past for OSGrid before the management change.
I may look into metropolis if it is back up. Hard telling what I'll wind up doing, but rest assured that Alicia is not out of the game for getting open source (yes source included) textures and freebie builds out on the net.
In all honesty I may be the last unicorn in a world of dragons, LOL - well that is more poetic then saying simply, "I wish people would put politics to the side and focus on what we do best, and that is to create and build this thing we call the hypergrid."