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No idea about adoption, but this was one way to monetize: https://www.meteor.com/hosting

They were also following the "Get lots of hype, sell pdfs" model for a while.

I'm not sure what you're talking about, Meteor never sold any PDFs?

http://www.discovermeteor.com/

Discover Meteor was promoted by MDG because they thought it was a good resource, but it was never part of MDG itself, it was wholly independent even if one of the authors did go on to work for MDG afterwards.

Source: I wrote that book.

Thank you for writing that book.

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