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by iujhygfvgbhnj 5936 days ago
A lot worse if you are in a country where $ are hard to get.

Or you are in a country that Fogcreek can't do business with

Or you want a site on a topic that FC, or their bankers, or their VC or their government don't want you to have one on

Or you want an internal secure site for your society, company, hospital, police force

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> Or you want an internal secure site for your society, company, hospital, police force

This is the real win in my opinion. On the open web, the SE sites are not just about the technology -- that is quite a small part of the problem.

Internally, especially in smaller companies, involvement is less of an issue and the technology becomes are more significant part of the problem. This is where I see a lot of opportunity for Shapado.

I'm assuming SE are going to have an in-house appliance or virtual machine version for companies.

No company is going to have it's knowledge base on someone else's servers - especially not any industry 'knowledge rich' (urghhh) enough to need an SE site