Yesterday M Linden aka Mark Kingdon, CEO of Linde Lab, published an open letter to the community, in which he heralded the nice community base of this world, their devotion and layed out the future plans of Linden Lab for the Open Spaces sims.
In short: no change at all, all he did was just pulling out a bunch of nice word, putting the same old plans in a nice looking, neater soundng package and that's it. The tier change is coming as planned, also in the same amount in the end, it is just happening in two steps instead of one and that's all. Wonder when the next protests are going to show up...