AntiOnline sellout?

[souleman]

Securityfocus (along with 2 other companies) were recently purchaced by symantec. There was a post about this last week sometime. Anyway, JP commented on how stupid it was, and how they should have atleast gotten a shitload more then they did. Whats my point? I highly doubt that JP would consider selling the site, and if he did, it would be for a shitload of cash, and he would most probably matain all control.

[Gobi]

Well, if he does sell the site which one of you are going to open a site equal to this and free, tht would be my only concern. But, hopefully it does not go that far and JP keeps the site up. We could make a good job forum, just to keep JP feeling good about the good job he is doing. Because if he sold the site the compliments might stop and you know NOBODY could handle that.

[Sosodef]

well personally to me, i DONT see that happening in some years to come.
This site is JUST too great to sold out to any company/individual even Bil-Gates.

[Louie]

I would applaud JP if he sold this site. Think of all the money he'd get. I think this site is too much upkeep and the bitching never ends. If JP sold this site, I would understand why...

[mohaughn]

There is no way you can compare securityfocus to AO. AO provides no original content. Where as security focus has developed ARIS, Deepsite, etc... Those are services that can be sold, hence the reason they were bought up. What does this site provide that is original other then the message boards? Nothing really. And if you want message boards, go create one. Companies are out of the phase of having a web page just for advertising revenue.. Because that is what caused so many net companies to flop to begin with.

As for the question about this site making money.. Do you guys not see the advertising banners at the top of the site??? That is why the messageboards were pushed so heavily. JP can base his advertising rates on the number of daily hits he gets a day. If he is getting tons of hits because of a message board, why not push that part of the page. The only problem is maintaining it..

[emachine]

Perhaps noone notices that antionline does indeed have advertising. Right now there is a banner for ISS at the top of my screen, and I think hearing somewhere that ISS gives antionline a lot of the money that it has. Every once in a while a pop up ad appears from antionline too. Another thing I heard was that venture capitalists gave JP thousands of dollars( between $75,000 and $500,000) years ago. So in a way antionline has already sold out. This isnt a hobby web site, antionline is a business and if they werent generating revenue in some way, they wouldnt have been around as long.