Microsoft buys Yahoo

[Nikola Lečić]

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On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 
> On Friday,  1 February 2008 at 16:58:31 -0800, johan beisser wrote:
[...] 
> > "Eat your own dogfood" doesn't come pleasant when your dogfood is
> > crap.
> 
> Sure, but they're more used to it.
> 
> I'd like to see a condition on the takeover that Y! continue to use
> FreeBSD :-)

Whatever be the case, I've always been wondering why people say that
Yahoo! is a "supporter of FreeBSD". Maybe someone can explain this,
but what I can see is the following:

* They don't say a single word about FreeBSD on their official pages.
  The wider audience knows nothing about the fact that Yahoo! is powered
  by FreeBSD.

* They don't have FreeBSD version of Yahoo! Messenger -- it would be a
  bit courteous, I think...

* Their webmail interface produces some of the most horrific e-mails you
  will see in your life. Compared to the e-mail standards, these e-mails
  are vulgar, which in a strong contrast to the standards-compliant and
  open-source nature of their base system. Therefore their users don't
  benefit very much from Yahoo!'s underlying OS.

  (Unlike Yahoo! Mail, GMail produces very nice text-only e-mails.)

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