I'm not a fan of one company monopolizing the whole market. I'd say Chess.com already does that enough.
I believe Lichess deserves to remain its own entity. It's not like they pose any financial threat to Chess.com, anyway ...
Chess.com should buy Lichess
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Jun 18, 2024
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monkey-armory wrote:
Why does Chess.com not just purchase lichess .. meanwhile Lichess is open source software that does not even show ads and relies on donations. I am sure that chess.com could offer enough money to Thibault Duplessis for him to sell or at least they could try. Lichess has the second most users of a chess server in the world purchasing it would be a game changer for chess.com they would effectivley have zero real competition. what are your views on a potential purchase?
That right there means it isn't something that would happen, even if they wanted to be bought out and the site was interested in doing it.
Jun 18, 2024
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Martin_Stahl wrote:
monkey-armory wrote:
Why does Chess.com not just purchase lichess .. meanwhile Lichess is open source software that does not even show ads and relies on donations. I am sure that chess.com could offer enough money to Thibault Duplessis for him to sell or at least they could try. Lichess has the second most users of a chess server in the world purchasing it would be a game changer for chess.com they would effectivley have zero real competition. what are your views on a potential purchase?
That right there means it isn't something that would happen, even if they wanted to be bought out and the site was interested in doing it.
Oh yeah duh someone would just put it back up or something.
Why does Chess.com not just purchase lichess. It would be the smartest thing ever. Chess.com likely has a valuation of over $500 million meanwhile Lichess is open source software that does not even show ads and relies on donations. I am sure that chess.com could offer enough money to Thibault Duplessis for him to sell or at least they could try. Lichess has the second most users of a chess server in the world purchasing it would be a game changer for chess.com they would effectivley have zero real competition. what are your views on a potential purchase?