From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 2 00:30:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8193716A417 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:30:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg (smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B501813C442 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:30:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 9592 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2008 00:30:35 -0000 Received: from adsl181.dyn229.pacific.net.sg (HELO P2120.somewherefaraway.com) (oceanare@210.24.229.181) by smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg with ESMTPA; 2 Feb 2008 00:30:32 -0000 Message-ID: <47A3B9A3.9080505@pacific.net.sg> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:30:27 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070826) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KAYVEN RIESE References: <47A30E1D.4030609@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:30:38 -0000 Hi, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >> I just heard rumours like this on German websites. >> >> What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? > > it was a news story on the san francisco news. they said > that a federal investigation was going to decide if there > were antitrust issues. > this sounds like irony. As longer this drags, the further away from the top will Yahoo be and so antitrust cannot be important anymore. I currently use Google and Yahoo to do searches in news for a very specific subject. It seems to me that at least there, Yahoo is very often very much behind Google. Yahoo gets the same news sites indexed later. Of course, they are not CNN, they are pretty small compared to them. Erich >> >> It could be anything from more support for FreeBSD to no support from >> Yahoo's side at all anymore. >> >> Erich >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > *----------------------------------------------------------* > Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) > (415) 902 5513 cellular > http://kayve.net > Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org > *----------------------------------------------------------* > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >