Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:00:31 -0800 (PST) From: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> To: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0802011755351.8976@libra.sfsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <47A3B9A3.9080505@pacific.net.sg> References: <47A30E1D.4030609@pacific.net.sg> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0802011058160.26188@libra.sfsu.edu> <47A3B9A3.9080505@pacific.net.sg>
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: > 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. umm.. Uncle Bill is the one doing the buying.. so.. umm.. i read that as the courts viewing microsoft as becoming the monopoly. > 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. google made a run for the desktop a while back, right? so google is trying to compete with microsoft on a certain level. you can't exactly call these things monopoly since microsoft is a PC-OS while google is a webserver.. still microsoft has MSN search. microsoft has historically tried to horn in past the OS, (e.g. exel and word) so now they want to try to take websearch. it ain't gonna happen, umm.. i don't THINK it's gonna happen, right? > > 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" >> > *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------*
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