[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by CarpCharacin

I heard about that, but they own so many forums. Will one day they own all?

Internet Brands (which also owns the vBulletin brand) also owns a lot of forums. Unless one company buys the other I doubt either will ever own all the forums.

Plus there's always going to be small forums no one wants to buy.

What is a real risk is if every large forum will be bought up by a big company, in the last few years I've seen some of the bigger ones I've used be taken over by Vertical Scope, and I do suspect in the not too distant future virtually all 5 million+ post active forums will be corporate owned.