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
>
>
> On 03/15/2012 07:51 AM, keith smith wrote:
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