Author Topic: Can Symbiostock ever be bought out? (Read 15395 times)

VB inc · « **on:** August 20, 2013, 13:40 »

I've been following these threads closely with the intention of creating my own symbio site once other priorities are out of the way (i started a screen printing venture for one. I'm in nyc so if anyone needs screen printing services =) pm me...).

Lets say this really takes off and the agencies really take notice on its success. Is there a possibility of a company like GETTY swooping in and killing this thing by outright buying it off??? I'm not familiar with the "open source" project of this sort.

sc · « **Reply #1 on:** August 20, 2013, 13:42 »

No we all own our own sites.

cascoly · « **Reply #2 on:** August 20, 2013, 13:51 »

there's no one to buy it from! open source means just that - the entire source code is publicly available. someone could make & market a derivative, but they'd need to build their own network

daveh900 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 20, 2013, 14:07 »

I'm willing to sell.

DonLand · « **Reply #4 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...

daveh900 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 20, 2013, 14:22 »

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...

Highly unlikely.

They still wouldn't own the images/content.

Redneck · « **Reply #6 on:** August 20, 2013, 14:37 »

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...

The code is public already. There's no turning back the open source character.

cathyslife · « **Reply #7 on:** August 20, 2013, 14:42 »

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...

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 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 20, 2013, 14:48 »

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...

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 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 20, 2013, 14:52 »

Quote from: DonLand on August 20, 2013, 14:15

What if they offered Leo ridiculous $$$ for the site and code

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.

EmberMike · « **Reply #10 on:** August 20, 2013, 15:00 »

We don't have to worry about Getty coming after Symbiostock. "Professionals work with professionals", right? We're all just a bunch of amateurs, building sites on Leo's amateur WordPress theme. They're not interested in us.

cthoman · « **Reply #11 on:** August 20, 2013, 16:07 »

Quote from: bhr on August 20, 2013, 14:52

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.

This is what I was thinking. Since Wordpress is always updating, I assume someone actually has to man the ship (code) occasionally.

EmberMike · « **Reply #12 on:** August 20, 2013, 16:30 »

I could be wrong, but I believe I recall seeing Leo say at some point that the idea with Symbiostock is that other people get more involved in the coding and development. As this all grows, hopefully more and more people with coding knowledge and WordPress development backgrounds will be able to help and/or take over development if Leo should ever not be able (or want) to continue with the project.

ShazamImages · « **Reply #13 on:** August 20, 2013, 16:32 »

Quote from: cthoman on August 20, 2013, 16:07

Since Wordpress is always updating, I assume someone actually has to man the ship (code) occasionally.

Just because WordPress upgrades doesn't mean that you would need to upgrade. The website will continue to work without upgrading.

CrackerClips · « **Reply #14 on:** August 20, 2013, 16:41 »

Quote from: ShazamImages on August 20, 2013, 16:32

Quote from: cthoman on August 20, 2013, 16:07
Since Wordpress is always updating, I assume someone actually has to man the ship (code) occasionally.

Just because WordPress upgrades doesn't mean that you would need to upgrade. The website will continue to work without upgrading.

I'd be somewhat careful about that. I've had a couple of wordpress sites in the past that I didn't keep up to date on the wordpress updates. After missing a few wordpress updates both of my sites were hacked exploiting weaknesses that the more recent versions of wordpress would have already eliminated.

Travelling-light · « **Reply #15 on:** August 20, 2013, 17:18 »

Leo just said recently that Sym would eventually work without Wordpress.

bunhill · « **Reply #16 on:** August 20, 2013, 17:22 »

Yep - Wordpress is notorious for being hacked if not kept up to date. Changes to Wordpress itself and to PHP and MySQL inevitably mean that over time the Symbiostock code will have to be kept up to date too.

It's a hugely impressive start and an interesting experiment but surely it will need many more coders and some sort of development methodology and structure before it could ever go mainstream.

cathyslife · « **Reply #17 on:** August 20, 2013, 17:22 »

Quote from: Travelling-light on August 20, 2013, 17:18

Leo just said recently that Sym would eventually work without Wordpress.

I would be interested in hearing the meaning of that. So it will be a program that is independently written? Not open source? If it works without Wordpress, wouldnt it have to be redesigned from scratch?

Anita Potter · « **Reply #18 on:** August 20, 2013, 17:30 »

Quote from: cathyslife stockphotos.com on August 20, 2013, 17:22

Quote from: Travelling-light on August 20, 2013, 17:18
Leo just said recently that Sym would eventually work without Wordpress.

I would be interested in hearing the meaning of that. So it will be a program that is independently written? Not open source? If it works without Wordpress, wouldnt it have to be redesigned from scratch?

I read that the other day and took it to be run as a Content Management System (CMS).

cidepix · « **Reply #19 on:** August 20, 2013, 19:26 »

Quote from: cthoman on August 20, 2013, 16:07

Quote from: bhr on August 20, 2013, 14:52
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.

This is what I was thinking. Since Wordpress is always updating, I assume someone actually has to man the ship (code) occasionally.

actually you don't have to update it.. I had a Wordpress store on the domain I installed SY since 2009 and I hadn't updated it for 3 years until I decided to switch to SY..

why update if it's already working and bringing in $$$

If symbiostock.com / .net / .info were to be bought by getty and they decided to screw things up, you just never update again

the store will continue working as is..

Leo Blanchette · « **Reply #20 on:** August 20, 2013, 19:58 »

caso · « **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2016, 22:00 »

nice

marthamarks · « **Reply #22 on:** February 01, 2016, 01:02 »

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