SixApart to buy LJ?

[drscott]

Rumors flying that Six Apart (the TypePad and Moveable Type people) is buying Live Journal. Hmm.

Looks like this little corner of cyberspace is getting too well known.

Comments

[barak.livejournal.com]

I wonder just how viable it would be- and what they would do with the system then.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

It's never been quite clear whether LJ was an open-source not-for-profit community or a business. I guess it was / is both. This kind of change is usually bad, since at some point the buyers (eventually a Yahoo or Google or *choke* MSN) want to milk the users through advertising or cross-selling.

[barak.livejournal.com]

Well, LJ and MT/TP are two different technologies-both have good points and bad. If the LJ people want to sell their system and SixApart winds up creating a "profit" scheme, I would suspect there would be some changes in how LJ handles the paid and permanent users as well as free users- advertising sounds like the first step, though.

[orange-groves.livejournal.com]

I read today that it is an ugly rumor.