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LiveJournal seems to have done well by open sourcing their product and charging to host it. Even though a lot of baby LiveJournals have sprung up, LJ still has
by dmoney 18y ago
LiveJournal seems to have done well by open sourcing their product and charging to host it. Even though a lot of baby LiveJournals have sprung up, LJ still has 15 million users. The social aspect has probably helped a lot by making it harder to leave.
Are there other companies that have succeeded with this model?
- tptacek 18y agoIf I was going to be devil's advocate, I'd point out that LJ is an also-ran in their category, and that LJ didn't open source until way late in the game. WordPress was open source from day one, and Automattic scored 25+MM in funding.
- dmoney 18y agoI seem to remember it being open source at least as early as 2001.