Or at least Pligg.com is for sale.

Techcrunch and Mashable posted that Pligg is for sale, mainly because it was too much work for the current Pligg team to keep maintaining the code and community for free.

Pligg is an open source Digg clone that makes it easy to start your own social web site. Pligg has online casino over 60,000 downloads, and many sites use it, but it”s not like whomever buys it will sudden get to start charging current Pligg users.

Pligg is currently open source, and I assume that the current version of the source will have to stay that way. If the new owners try to charge money for it, someone will probably fork the current code to keep it free. Instead, the new owner will mainly get the Pligg web site, the forum, the Pligg name, and control of the current sourceforge repository. A good monetizing move might be to offer paid installation, support, and customization for open source software, something I”ve been doing more of personally at DevelopmentNow.