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Then Stack Overflow would be the Expertsexchange of 2013
by niggler 14y ago
Then Stack Overflow would be the Expertsexchange of 2013
- pjbrunet 14y agoThe difference is, people would pay. Classic bait and switch. That's how things have played out since Geocities. You young guns sweating over Stack Exchange points don't remember those days. That's why you register a dot-com, to protect your content.
- jsmeaton 14y agoThe content on all SE sites is licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ cc-wiki license. I wouldn't be worrying about a bait-and-switch.
- tkahn6 14y agoNot only that, they host dumps of all the questions and answers.
- pjbrunet 14y agoThey're not bound to that license. Are you a lawyer? It's just another content farm looking for unpaid labor.
- jsmeaton 14y agoWow you're really quite negative regarding Stack Overflow. Is there a reason? Many many many people find it an excellent resource for their problems, and others find it a great place to sharpen their tools. Do you have the same attitude towards wikipedia?
- pjbrunet 14y agoI agree it's an excellent resource. I have several profiles there http://stackoverflow.com/users/722796/pj-brunet http://stackoverflow.com/users/722796/pj-brunet Because it's an excellent resource, it could be monetized with a paywall. We can't predict the future but we can learn from the past. They're already monetizing it with http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer They don't really have much competition but I think http://snipt.net/ http://snipt.net/ is a good alternative in certain situations.