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Blogware not worth it?
John Robb doesn't think that it was worth writing Blogware from scratch. I've got some thoughts about that, but I promised myself that I wouldn't make any public comments until we finish our dialogue with our channel partners. I will say that he probably doesn't have the benefit of all of the important data points that I do, which probably makes any discussion of this point less than sporting 
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See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.
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(name not saved), August 2, 2003
And John also has his own interest in seeing Userland software tools adopted on a larger scale.
(name not saved), August 2, 2003
In fairness, John isn't with Userland anymore from what I understand. What his residual interests are, I just don't know.
(name not saved), August 2, 2003
On the merits then, it's hard to think that the two-year-old blogging software space is saturated, when the number of users is still experiencing significant upward growth. The tools out there do the job, but we're still trying to figure out what blogging is; new tools that do new things and push the definition of 'blogging' are more than welcome. On the 'investment', I have no idea what Tucows put into this, but the competition developed its software in one- or two-person teams (Userland:Dave, Blogger:Ev; MT:Ben and Mina), so we're not talking about building, say, Photoshop from the ground-up.
I don't think of Tucows as one of the 'Bigs,' to use Winer's phrase, but it's nice to see a company with a clue and the necessary resources turn its R&D to personal online publishing. I'm sure that Macromedia and Adobe, maybe even Microsoft, will turn their attention this way soon too. From a user's perspective, they'll be welcome too.
-- Bret