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03 Feb 09

Everyblock's Dilemma: How Do You Open Source Your Entire Site and Survive? - O'Reilly Radar

Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Radar) ponders Adrian Holovaty's announcement that Everyblock will be opensource/ available. Some interesting comment responses.

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  • Everyblock was funded through a Knight News Challenge Grant and they've come crossroads as Adrian explains:


    But now we've reached an interesting point in our project's growth: our grant ends on June 30, and, under the terms of our grant, we're open-sourcing the EveryBlock publishing system so that anybody will be able to take the code to create similar sites. That's a Good Thing, in that EveryBlock's philosophies and tools will have the opportunity to spread around the world much faster than we could have done on our own, but it puts the six of us EveryBlockers in an odd spot. How do we sustain our project if our code is free to the world?


    What do you think? How can they keep the project alive and perhaps even make it profitable if they are providing development resources to the competition?

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