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

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

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

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 rejected

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 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.jpg