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Date:      Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:00:37 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer
Message-ID:  <47A6F055.8080200@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080204091025.T31857@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
References:  <20080204091025.T31857@gwdu60.gwdg.de>

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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



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