A wee bit OT: Yahoo! Rejecting Microsoft's Takeover Bid??? Whaaa?!

[Tuna]

Alan Dayley wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 20:31 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
>>
>>> Yahoo supports and uses FS/OSS extensively.  It would have an impact on
>>> the FS/OSS community as a whole if MS were to get control of all that.
>> ----
>> I know of their contributions to javascript/css but am not aware of any
>> other contributions. Care to enumerate?
> 
> A new ad tracker application on a BSD, OSS stack with a reasonable
> estimate that Yahoo is probably the third largest user of FS/OSS with
> Google and NSA rounding out the three:
> http://www.interopnews.com/news/a-microsoft-secret-plan-for-yahoos-open-source.html
> 
> A list of FS/OSS software in use at Yahoo:
> http://www.windley.com/archives/2005/08/open_source_sof_1.shtml
> 
> I do not know specific direct contributions but I assume all these
> projects benefit from Yahoo's use.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 

Well most companies USE open source software in one way or another. I 
hear that Microsoft runs Linux on some of their servers, but they don't 
give a lot back, do they?