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Can Symbiostock ever be bought out?
daveh900:
--- Quote from: DonLand on August 20, 2013, 14:15 ---Devil's advocate here....
What if G---y said offered ridiculous $$$ for www.symbiostock.com, www.symbiostock.info and www.symbiostock.net websites?
What if they offered Leo ridiculous $$$ for the site and code and sent out an update that broke the network?
Just saying... ???
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Highly unlikely.
They still wouldn't own the images/content.
Redneck:
--- Quote from: DonLand on August 20, 2013, 14:15 ---Devil's advocate here....
What if G---y said offered ridiculous $$$ for www.symbiostock.com, www.symbiostock.info and www.symbiostock.net websites?
What if they offered Leo ridiculous $$$ for the site and code and sent out an update that broke the network?
Just saying... ???
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The code is public already. There's no turning back the open source character.
cathyslife:
--- Quote from: DonLand on August 20, 2013, 14:15 ---Devil's advocate here....
What if G---y said offered ridiculous $$$ for www.symbiostock.com, www.symbiostock.info and www.symbiostock.net websites?
What if they offered Leo ridiculous $$$ for the site and code and sent out an update that broke the network?
Just saying... ???
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When placement of SY images starts eating into their placement, you can believe something would be done. But aforementioned party might have already secured their position, particularly with google. Money talks.
I have thought the same as you , Don.
Snufkin:
--- Quote from: DonLand on August 20, 2013, 14:15 ---Devil's advocate here....
What if G---y said offered ridiculous $$$ for www.symbiostock.com, www.symbiostock.info and www.symbiostock.net websites?
What if they offered Leo ridiculous $$$ for the site and code and sent out an update that broke the network?
Just saying... ???
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It is much more likely that Leo buys Getty only to set up on their site a redirect to the Symbiostock site and to use their office as a venue for snooker and ping-pong tournaments for symbiostock members.
bunhill:
--- Quote from: DonLand on August 20, 2013, 14:15 ---What if they offered Leo ridiculous $$$ for the site and code
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The code is some version of open source IIRC. A bigger issue I have been wondering (as a spectator) - what happens if Leo one day decides to stop developing and or maintaining and fixing the code ?
Most successful open source projects I can think of have a much bigger economic base and therefore either a team of developers or, ultimately, money for code. It's hard with Symbiostock to see what the model is from the development side. That could be me not understanding it properly.
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