Eerie but could this happen ??

hey all

im not very good in opening threads but just felt it would be nice to know a few thoughts here. We all know what has been happening with vb. And with more and more people leaving the future is not gonna be that rosy. And once the vb funds begin to dry will they try something like creating a monopoly over the forum software ? what i mean to say is an IB takeover of IPB just like they did with jelsoft thus ending the choice of us customers ? an eerie situation which i hope never happens but what if it does

Being a newbie dunno if such a discussion already exists here and dunno if this is the right place for posting this. If so please move it to the proper forum

 

They could never make a monopoly. not as long as you have opensource software like phpBB and SMF and MyBB around. At least I think so...

 

first the forums.....and then the world

no, it probably will never happen

 

IPB is a nobody in the forum world. They might as well not even exist. SMF and phpBB each have hundreds of times the number of installations that IPB has.

The closest thing IB could do would be to buy out Lewis Media, which might get them somewhere as they could lock up SMF's code. LM would have to let them, however.

That would still leave them facing the Drupal and Wordpress juggernauts, however. vB's future competition doesn't lie in phpBB or IPB nearly as much as it does in Advanced Forum and bbPress.

 

I don't think it could happen, merely because the current open source forums by nature cannot be bought out and privatised due to their software licenses. So while they could take over Invision, in theory, there'd still be numerous counts of open source forum software around to use, and maybe even new commercial forum programs being started by other people and companies.

 

What is the point of your post?