Yes Faisal, unfortunately, what you have said is true. But again, I still wonder, why do you guys not agree with me when I say that this is one of the advantages of the Open Source world.
If Microsoft's staff reaches the number 20000 or 70000, or more, do not forget that the Open Source world might contain the remaining number of Web professionals in the globe. If we manage to gather as much support as we can, we might be able to do something similar to that happening in Operating Systems world. Linus Torvalds did not make Linux as strong as it is now all by himself, we all know that hundreds if not thousands of corporations and individuals are involved in the rapid evolution of our beloved revolution OS. Dell and IBM are some of these. So if we can do the same to a search engine, I think Microsoft will not stand a chance. Let me explain a bit more, let's take the Middle East for example. I, personally, think that the Arab world must not be isolated from all this. How about if Maktoob.com and Ayna.com join forces, I know they both are still too far from the competition. But if we manage to gather as much support as possible, and keep in mind that we have large workforce in this field. On Feb 4, 2008 11:45 PM, Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Offer a good business plan that has open source at its core, and you just > might get what you wish. > > This move obviously reeks of desperation on M$ side, and shows how they > are incapable of competing with Google head on. > What is worrying in this deal is not that M$ might actually acquire > Yahoo!, or of moving them off of FreeBSD, or even switching them completely > to ASP instead of PHP (i'm mostly sure points 2 and 3 would never happen). > > What is worrying is that between those two companies, they hold 3 out of 5 > of the mosted visited websites in the world (yahoo.com, live.com, and > msn.com, not to mention M$ has a stake in facebook which is at number 7). > If M$ tries to expand it's desktop monopoly to lock those sites, or provide > enhanced functionality to windows users, we will be facing a very scary > scenario. > > > > On Feb 4, 2008 11:21 PM, Omar Hafez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just to make things clearer, in the link I've just stated in the past > > reply, this is the part I'm talking about: > > > > ====== > > > > I think back to the fall of 2005, when Bill Gates visited The New York > > Times, and an editor asked him if Microsoft "would do to Google what you did > > to Netscape?" > > > > "Nah," laughed Mr. Gates, "we'll do something different." This ain't it. > > ====== > > > > > > On Feb 4, 2008 11:17 PM, Omar Hafez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Okay guys, there's no need for tension now, I'm tame and calm and > > > smiling. :) > > > > > > Okay Zaid, maybe I was exaggerating a little bit, actually I was > > > exaggerating a lot more than I thought I was. > > > > > > The reason for this is that I was actually comparing the creation of > > > Linux, the strongest open source alternative to Microsoft's Windows, to > > > the > > > creation of a new search engine to play as an alternative to Yahoo! which > > > is > > > of course too far from logic, since we can't compare an Operating System, > > > to > > > a search engine, there's no comparison. > > > > > > But what I meant is this, creating a new alternative to Yahoo! is not > > > a child's play, it's not that easy, who said it is? > > > > > > But guys, ya know something? I don't know about the rest of the > > > world, but I know lot's of the famous search engines in the middle east, > > > and > > > you also know them, Maktoob.com, Ayna.com, and a lot more. If we, the > > > Arabs, manage to convince these to support Open Source, we might be able > > > to > > > develop something for ourselves. Maybe it still won't stand a chance > > > against > > > Yahoo! but at least, it will give us a good opportunity, to finally feel > > > like we, the Arabs are finally doing something. > > > > > > Plus, I don't know, but even if Microsoft does put its hands on Yahoo! > > > I don't really think that would be the end of the world. How? well, > > > simply, > > > because one of the main reasons why Microsoft is welling to buy Yahoo! is > > > to > > > try to compete with Google. > > > > > > Yahoo! is already still too far from being a rival to Google, and > > > Microsoft won't be able to add anything to Yahoo! to make it stronger, we > > > all know MSN is a great failure, so combining it with Yahoo! will only > > > make > > > things worse. Plus, Microsoft knows that they are fighting the dragon in > > > the > > > lava pool when they are competing with Google. The internet is Google's > > > field, that's a fact the doesn't need proof. So, no matter what Microsoft > > > does, competing with Google will still be a stupid move. > > > > > > > > > Of course unless Microsoft makes another monopolistic move that's > > > similar to the one they made with Netscape. > > > > > > I didn't bring the last line out of my own imagination, I've read it > > > in an article on Yahoo! Business. > > > > > > Here's the link again: > > > http://biz.yahoo.com/nytimes/080202/1194743059005.html?.v=2 > > > > > > > > > On Feb 4, 2008 10:39 PM, Omar Hafez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Okay okay guys, I'm sorry for God's sake, maybe I did over react or > > > > something, I did by mistake.. > > > > > > > > Alright fine, you didn't really have to bring out the banning thing, > > > > I already know about that which is part of why I said sorry.. >< > > > > > > > > Okay, sorry again, if you want you can even delete all the posts by > > > > me, that you think are not appropriate. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 4, 2008 10:18 PM, Jad madi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If I may add to what Abdallahs said > > > > > > > > > > OR you will get banned :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Al-Faisal El-Dajani > Phone: +962-7-79737050 > P.O Box: 140056 > 11814 Amman, Jordan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. 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