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Some good points there. I've always kept an eye on such business practices. I worked for a SaaS ecommerce outfit a few years ago and they sold their stuff to a
by csmuk 13y ago
Some good points there. I've always kept an eye on such business practices.
I worked for a SaaS ecommerce outfit a few years ago and they sold their stuff to all the competitors in the same market space. After a bit, they yanked it with 28 days' notice and went into direct competition with them. Assholes. Strikes me as the same sort of company.
- robomartin 13y agoWell, just go to their website (link in prior post) and you can see they run hundreds of forums. That always rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't learn about this until much after I purchased my vB license. Had I seen this prior to making that decision I would not have used their software. I wasn't trying to build a large community. I just thought it was a huge violation of ethics to sell people software and then go off and compete with your own customers. This isn't disclosed in the vB site. You have to dig to find who owns vB and then it's kind of in the fine print. The average prospective buyer is unlikely to discover this until much later, if ever.