Wow, that’s the first I’ve heard about that VT sell-out (having fallen further behind in such news this week). That would have been another reason not to renew my subscription when it finally expired a few weeks ago. It originally started as a VT Plus subscription back in 2002 that had been extended beyond the original expiration date as credit for a problem that had taken “forever” to eventually resolve (mostly). During that time I’d become increasingly unimpressed with VT’s service while still appreciating its value to the Mac community. Sadly, that dual-sword nature of businesses seems to be increasing.

There are times I’ve considered abandoning VT in favor of MacUpdate (which isn’t without its own issues) but both have subsets of unique listings even if the majority is overlap. The influence VT being “borged” by CNET might have on MU could be interesting and hopefully positive. It’s enough to cause me to more seriously reconsider a complete VT to MU migration, especially now that the few VT subscription benefits I took advantage of have expired. As you said, we’ll see how this pans out … in more ways than one.

PS: Any possibility of adding comment previewing here? See Daniel Jalkut’s Red Sweater Blog for an optional live preview example that I personally like. I’ve always wondered why WordPress developers don’t include any form of comment previewing in the default distribution since that way more sites would have that capability. Seem obviously useful to me so blog commenters can preview their marked-up posts for errors… or maybe there’s a newer-and-better way to do that I still haven’t discovered?