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

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 22:33 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Craig White wrote:

> > It's obviously me, I just don't seem to find myself doing much with
> > Yahoo any more.
> 
> I don't much either except for Flickr.  Yahoo hasn't "messed it up" but
> it's not a money maker for them either, or so I have read.
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clearly flickr is replaceable and there's probably 15 competitors out
there doing much the same thing already. Flickr is obviously not what
Microsoft covets.
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> > If I ignore my disdain for Microsoft (which is probably on a par with my
> > disdain for Apple), I'm trying to figure out if I really care whether
> > Microsoft buys/merges/whatever with Yahoo or not.
> 
> I don't care too much except that I will move off of Flickr if it
> happens.  Mostly because I think MS will start requiring MS technology
> to use it.  The FS/OSS community is very resilient and will not be
> harmed too much if Yahoo is pulled out.
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I do think that Google is better off for the competition but I'm not
sure that Yahoo is much competition for them these days.

fork Zimbra, let them have Yahoo is my thinking (and I don't use Zimbra
and likely will never use it).

Gotta love GPL though...GPL means that software like Zimbra doesn't
disappear because parent company is purchased and product is
scuttled...I mean, who is going to count on Microsoft to continue
developing Zimbra?

Craig