From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 4 13:17:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DED316A468 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA34013C501 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:17:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4272D2085; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:17:00 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257F12049; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:17:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 05754844A0; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:17:00 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "Niki Denev" References: <20080204091025.T31857@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <47A6F055.8080200@FreeBSD.org> <2e77fc10802040355u2f963d83kcd7c6ee816b6b27@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:16:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: <2e77fc10802040355u2f963d83kcd7c6ee816b6b27@mail.gmail.com> (Niki Denev's message of "Mon\, 4 Feb 2008 13\:55\:02 +0200") Message-ID: <86lk60g8tw.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:17:10 -0000 "Niki Denev" writes: > There's a speculation that Yahoo may reject Microsoft's offer in favor > of alliance with Google > http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/04/0130235.shtml And like pretty much everything else on Slashdot, it is just that: wild speculation. Yahoo! has rejected offers from Microsoft in the past, but this time, Microsoft addressed their very generous offer (~60% above last close at the time it was made) directly to the shareholders, and there is nothing Y! can do to stop it if enough shareholders decide to bite. This tactic is commonly known as a hostile takeover. I am not saying Microsoft will succeed, nor that they will fail. I don't know either way, and at this point, I don't think anybody else does either. However, when listening to such speculation as you refer to above, you should take into account the fact that some people may stand to make a lot of money by convincing the market, or even just a small part of it, that their speculation is factual rather than pulled out of thin air. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no