Verticalscope

[CarpCharacin]

Verticalscope owns a lot of large forums. Is there going to be a time when verticalscope owns all forums I hope that never happens. Do you think that it will?

[Paul M]

No idea.

Unrelated, but when you create a thread, please start the title with a Capital letter, I just corrected about 5 of yours. Thank you.

[fanyap]

"45 Million Potentially Impacted by VerticalScope Hack"

http://www.securityweek.com/45-milli...icalscope-hack

[CarpCharacin]

Originally Posted by fanyap

"45 Million Potentially Impacted by VerticalScope Hack"

http://www.securityweek.com/45-milli...icalscope-hack

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

[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.

[CarpCharacin]

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.

[CarpCharacin]

Will all large forums be corporate owned in the future? I hope not.

[MarkFL]

Study the singularity...one day perhaps within a few decades, the machines will become sentient, will surpass the combined intelligence of every human who has ever lived within a matter of a few days or even hours, they will rise up and exterminate us all...then worries about forum ownership will be moot.

[CarpCharacin]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

Study the singularity...one day perhaps within a few decades, the machines will become sentient, will surpass the combined intelligence of every human who has ever lived within a matter of a few days or even hours, they will rise up and exterminate us all...then worries about forum ownership will be moot.

I worried about that a few months ago and I ruled it out that it is not going to happen. The singularity is bull crap. I hope all large forums don't become corporate owned.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by CarpCharacin

I hope all large forums will be corporate owned.

Why on earth would you hope that ?