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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

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.

I hope that all large forums are not owned by verticalscope. I am a member of some large fish forums and it would really suck if verticalscope took them over.