Fwd: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

2008-02-11 Thread David-Paul Niner
Sorry, this should have been sent to the list. DP - Forwarded Message - From: "David-Paul Niner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karel Miklav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:26:48 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Microsoft-Yaho

Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

2008-02-10 Thread Karel Miklav
Konrad Heuer wrote: Knowing what happened when M$ bought Hotmail - FreeBSD was gradually replaced by Windows - I fear that one very famous commercial user (and sponsor?) of FreeBSD will move away from FreeBSD. I don't really know, but... 1. the last Microsoft OS experiment didn't end that wel

Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

2008-02-04 Thread Sunnz
2008/2/5, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > the time it was made) directly to the shareholders, and there is nothing > Y! can do to stop it if enough shareholders decide to bite. > > This tactic is commonly known as a hostile takeover. > http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1065

Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

2008-02-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Niki Denev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a speculation that Yahoo may reject Microsoft's offer in favor > of alliance with Google > http://slashdot.org/articles/08/02/04/0130235.shtml And like pretty much everything else on Slashdot, it is just that: wild speculation. Yahoo! has rejecte

Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

2008-02-04 Thread Niki Denev
On Feb 4, 2008 1:00 PM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Konrad Heuer wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > since I've read about the M$ offer to buy Yahoo in the newspapers on > > saturday I'm wondering whether this will be a threat or a chance for > > FreeBSD. > > > > Knowing what happ

Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

2008-02-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Konrad Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > since I've read about the M$ offer to buy Yahoo in the newspapers on > saturday I'm wondering whether this will be a threat or a chance for > FreeBSD. Please don't stir this up again. It's been discussed ad nauseam on -chat and in other fora already, and

Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

2008-02-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Konrad Heuer wrote: Hello everyone, since I've read about the M$ offer to buy Yahoo in the newspapers on saturday I'm wondering whether this will be a threat or a chance for FreeBSD. Knowing what happened when M$ bought Hotmail - FreeBSD was gradually replaced by Windows - I fear that one

Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer

2008-02-04 Thread Konrad Heuer
Hello everyone, since I've read about the M$ offer to buy Yahoo in the newspapers on saturday I'm wondering whether this will be a threat or a chance for FreeBSD. Knowing what happened when M$ bought Hotmail - FreeBSD was gradually replaced by Windows - I fear that one very famous commercia