Microsoft buys Yahoo

[Dan Langille]

Nikola Lečić wrote:
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> On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>> On Friday,  1 February 2008 at 16:58:31 -0800, johan beisser wrote:
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>>> "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.)

Yahoo provides hardware, colo, and bandwidth.  They allow their staff to 
support this infrastructure and in other ways to support the project.

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