I agree with what you said about yahoo.
I don't like the idea of people being able to patent a concept.
Let people have rights to software they write, but not the idea
itself. If the software patent idea had come out a few years
earlier, someone could have gotten a patent for encoding digital
audio in a compressed form. This would have been a headache for
the people who developed mp3 and the other formats that have come
after it.
On 3/15/2012 9:17, Michael Butash wrote:
I was
chatting with folks at PayPal when they told me their CEO Scott
Thompson was poached by yahoo to be the next inline to try and
resurrect them to relevancy. I found that odd until I heard he
got 27mil to do it. I'd probably even sell my soul to microsoft
for that.
I'd wondered just what he would try, as it seems pretty dismal for
yahoo these days (but hey, even lycos is still around!). Pretty
sad that patent trolling is the best he could come up with,
indicating it'll be yet another revolving door CEO position there
if he fails, or worse, he's successful as little more than a
parasite on the industry already plagued with them. That's a hell
of a legacy from "made paypal big and strong".
Way to innovate there buddy. Though I dislike Facebook, I almost
hope they win just to force yahoo die off once and for all.
-mb
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