Roger Schonfeld, in a Scholarly Kitchen post on the private-equity sale of publishing platform Silverchair:
Silverchair will not be owned by an investment-oriented private equity firm forever. Sooner or later, it will likely end up in the arms of another owner, perhaps eventually through a strategic acquisition. We can be philosophical about this and recognize that much else will change in the market also over that period of time, so there may be little sense in worrying about this too much right now. Still, in the long run, the independence of commercially owned community digital infrastructure is never fully guaranteed.
That’s why we need our infrastructure nonprofit and community-led—so it can’t be bepress-ed.