Official Statement Regarding Pligg.com negotiations

[beatniak]

I'm glad that's the focus of pligg (wouldn't believe you'd have another one).

Whatever happens, a strong community is hard to tame. If you want to push it in the wrong direction, it will follow it's own route - just like what happened in the joomla/mambo case.

With the talks on IRC and the forums I know you guys don't want pligg to take the mambo route. So i'll wait and see in strong believe this will turn out to be a good thing for all of us.

I think a serious party with good intentions can take pligg to a next level, and hope to see some one giving some (monetary) attention to ash's great work with pligg 2.0.

(and if the new pligg owners turn out to be some tinfoil-hat or sell out weirdo's, let's meet again at fslsdkjvnbvnsrtnkasjhgsjnbjnak.com)

PS: the domain www.fslsdkjvnbvnsrtnkasjhgsjnbjnak.com hasn't been taken yet, so make a run for it

[P1mpPanther]

was looking at sedo - very impressive stats, you guys done well!

this one is a slam dunk..pligg is definitely going to get sold and most likely for decent coin since this (digg) style social network is whats blazing hot right now (look at all the pligg sites popping up)

my question is, are you forming an agreement with the potential buyers to keep the dev team on board? from the 'pitch' there's no mention of this and i would like to know that we're not going to be losing anyone during the transition.

[EsCa]

I ****ing KNEW IT

yall trying to CASH out so yall dont have to give any more up dates

man this is so ****ED UP.

[chuckroast]

EsCa

You have absolutely no idea what your talking about.
Please don't make public statements without knowing all the facts.

[kbeeveer46]

Originally Posted by EsCa

yall trying to CASH out so yall dont have to give any more up dates

I'm sorry, but this sentence doesn't make any sense. According to this sentence, Pligg developers are being forced to update Pligg now. Can you let me know who is making us update Pligg?

[EsCa]

Sorry guys i got scared yall was trying to cash out on dig when i saw the word "bidder" so just made a comment outta anger

i thought yall was gonna give it to some fortune500 corporation.

[dollars5]

So there are many people hoping to always make free-lunch and free-ride out of Pligg, but when the developers decide to reap for their contributions, those people will start yelling. No one can be blamed, that is human nature

Again guys: Open Source != Cost free software. Many seem to get confused over there. And unless you see the word FREEWARE on any software product, it can be charged, but in this case the Pligg developers were kind enough to let every one have a free ride, hope the future company that will be formed will also let people have free ride and charge for services and support only.

Man just can't imagine - i am gonna reply people in forums who ask "I installed Pligg, I get error - but will not provide details on my server, php version and what changes I have done"
- "Pls take a support request for USD 100 - our development engineer will fix it for you " - that day is not so long.

[paul lytes]

I made a run for www.fslsdkjvnbvnsrtnkasjhgsjnbjnak.com but it was taken! Went there and OMGWTF!

[dollars5]

OMG, people think that serious of whatever gets posted in here ? - went on to the extend of buying a dummy domain - wanted to see what gets hosted there

[davemackey]

kbeeveer - I find it somewhat humorous that your avatar is for Microsoft .NET when Pligg is a PHP based platform. Care to explain the meaning between this?
Also, why not just hire an executive management team? Instead of selling...Lots of companies hand off management to an experience CEO.