Well, what's so scary if hotmail won't work on FireFox 2.0? For me, the only thing I use my Hotmail these days is for chatting with my friends on MSN, and I do the using KMess. :) It's not very scary to me at least, I don't know about other people.
On Feb 8, 2008 7:28 PM, Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the scary part (although not-likely to happen) if M$ acquired > Yahoo! > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/08/1355246 > > 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 > > > > > -- > 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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