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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:55:02 +0200
From:      "Niki Denev" <nike_d@cytexbg.com>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer
Message-ID:  <2e77fc10802040355u2f963d83kcd7c6ee816b6b27@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47A6F055.8080200@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20080204091025.T31857@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <47A6F055.8080200@FreeBSD.org>

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On Feb 4, 2008 1:00 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Konrad Heuer wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > since I've read about the M$ offer to buy Yahoo in the newspapers on
> > saturday I'm wondering whether this will be a threat or a chance for
> > FreeBSD.
> >
> > Knowing what happened when M$ bought Hotmail - FreeBSD was gradually
> > replaced by Windows - I fear that one very famous commercial user (and
> > sponsor?) of FreeBSD will move away from FreeBSD.
> >
> > What do you think and expect?
>
> I think people should not become frightened when nothing has actually
> happened yet.
>
> Kris
>

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

--Niki



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