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. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
