Doug LaRue wrote:
IMO, if the Yang-gang can't fight of this takeover and remain mostly
intact( yahoo, not the Yang-gang ), that would be the best for the
market. But if they can't and the end result is Microsoft takes over
Yahoo, then I hope they, the Yang-gang, fight it so intensely that
what Microsoft gets is a shell of what Yahoo is today. Because if
Microsoft takes over a healthy Yahoo, they will find ways to move
Yahoo users, advertisers, and developers in the Windows-only
fold of MSN.com.
Why do you assume that Yahoo is so much more noble than Microsoft?
Yahoo's current problem is that *they aren't being successful extracting
money from/for users*.
If Yahoo manages to fight this off, they're going to have to do exactly
that--extract more money from users.
Yes, Microsoft is a known evil, and Yahoo is an unknown evil.
And, BTW, Yahoo are the ones who screwed up enough that I *left* them.
They rolled everybody from their "groups startups" buyouts into Yahoo
groups when it sucked. 8 different groups I was part of (3 different
groups startups) all shut down and moved to mailing lists rather than
fight with Yahoo groups. Yahoo mail and groups *still* can't handle
international characters. The even *dumber* part of this is that Yahoo
Japan (I have an account there) *does* handle international characters
just fine in the mail and groups. If they just took their Yahoo Japan
software and rolled it out in the US, things would *work*.
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