Six Apart is the parent company of TypePad and creator of Movable Type blogging software. By all accounts they’re one of the Good Guys, and I’m guessing the purchase will be transparent to most users. If anything, I’m hoping this might mean incorporation of some of the better blogging features out there (like something similar to BlogThis!) into LJ, but we’ll see. I’d reckon this will mean quite a windfall for brad, though – good for him!
In other news, gatcat just ain’t right!
There goes the neighborhood. I wonder if they’ll stop the open source releases of the LJ code.
(In case you’re wondering, I really don’t like Six Apart. Their actions have just rubbed me wrong in too many ways.)
I’ll wait til I see something more substantial then someone’s blog to worry about it.
You know, there’s something deliciously, ironically meta in this response 🙂
(Not that I disagree with you, mind you…)
*chuckles* And sometimes…they are true.
http://www.livejournal.com/news.bml
Oh deer. And I just got on too. Hopefully LJ won’t go public and end up like eBay, with cookies required for your every move past browsing. *bristles*