Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

Niki Denev nike_d at cytexbg.com
Mon Feb 4 04:21:53 PST 2008


On Feb 4, 2008 1:00 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at 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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