Pligg Opens Negotiations For Possible Sale
As some of you may have noticed, Pligg is going through some changes. Recently, the administration has decided to open Pligg.com up for bidding. You can read more at the following links Mashable & Tech Crunch
Let me elaborate on what this means. In the last year and a half Pligg has grown well beyond our expectations and it is getting difficult for the developers to manage the business side of Pligg on a daily basis without slowing down development. Which consists mainly of advertising, support, and community management. We’ve seen many online businesses develop products to support Pligg recently. Selling everything from custom templates and modules, to support and installation. This should be a clear example of the popularity of Pligg. We believe by allowing more seasoned professionals take over the day to day management of Pligg, it will allow Pligg to flourish into realm’s that we never thought possible.
So what does this mean to you, the “Pligger”? Right now, not much, as we’ve just open the channels up for negotiation. Any transfer of Pligg ownership could take months. We believe this will bring a vast improvements the the Pligg community and allow the developers to continue working on the project uninterrupted.
As of right now nothing has changed. Keep up your Pligging and we will update you with any information we get.
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August 12th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Anyone know what the approximate worth of an Auction like Pligg could yield. Just curious on how much something like this could sell. I guess the question that has to be asked is will Digg like sites last long enough to yield some return for the person winning the auction.
August 12th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
[...] Pligg is for sale on sedo.com of all places. I didnt even know you can actually “sell” an open source project/community. What if Linus decides one day to “sell” Linux? Can he even do that? This selling of an open source project is NOT a good trend to start but I do understand that someone (who?) deserves to make some money from the value generated from Pligg. Maybe there should be otherways to get to the same objective? [...]
August 12th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
[...] is just a quick follow up on my previous aside. As Michael Arrington reported, Pligg intends to sell it’s SourceForge account. However, the SourceForge terms of use very clearly state [...]
August 13th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
[...] around the blogosphere lately about Pligg.com going up for sale. It appears the makers of Pligg are opening up bidding for the sale of pligg.com. Bids start at $25,000 on Sedo (just type in 24999, and then type in 25000 and you’ll see [...]
August 15th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
[...] For details, please read the announcement. [...]
August 28th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Is there any information on what will become of Pligg? i.e. are there terms to the contract that say the purchaser must continue to support the Pligg CMS? I use Pligg and will be sad to see the support vanish. It is a great website building tool, and a good way to build a community online without going down the forum route.