"Anderson himself later commented on that same post, clarifying: In accordance with the terms of our Knight Foundation News Challenge Grant, we are using the funds to create an open source version of VillageSoup’s software, which combines blogs, citizen journalism, online advertising and reverse publishing from online to print. The Knight Foundation will sublicense the open source publishing system software to third parties under the GPL and Creative Commons License. In fact, that code is now available from this google code project: vsce (Village Soup Community Edition). It’s GPL (v2) licensed, with content (the user manual?) available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. There’s a 1.0.0 release, dated July 15, 2009, as well as a 63-page user manual which covers installation, configuration, and operation of sites based on the platform. The platform components are pretty standard in the open source world: Java (specifically Java Server Faces), JBoss Application Server, JBoss Seam, Hibernate, MySQL, Maven, and JQuery." - Lisa thorell from Bookmarklet

Purchased for "low-single-digit millions" (http://paidcontent.org/article...) built from a 2-year $1.1 M grant fro Knight: Not much of a market multiple. Seems this is someone's opportunity to enter market with the june 30th codebase -- almost an open invitation here from the Knight Foundation to do so. Pretty wild...let the games begin! - Lisa thorell