Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-04 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Brett Glass wrote: At 07:19 PM 2/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been through many M&A deals. MS will be able to successfully argue that the MS+Yahoo! combo does not constitute a monopoly, since: 1) the share of search of the

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, a short 'description' what will happen: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/02/bam-borg-makes-yahoo-its-bitch.html Is it really a fake? Erich KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Brett Glass wrote: At 07:19 PM 2/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been through many M&A deals. M

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-02 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Brett Glass wrote: At 07:19 PM 2/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been through many M&A deals. MS will be able to successfully argue that the MS+Yahoo! combo does not constitute a monopoly, since: 1) the share of search of the combined companies does not equal that o

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-02 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been through many M&A deals. MS will be able to successfully argue that the MS+Yahoo! combo does not constitute a monopoly, since: 1) the share of search of the combined companies does not equal that of it's competitor, Google (source: http://s

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:48:54 -0500 Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikola Lečić wrote: > > Whatever be the case, I've always been wondering why people say that > > Yahoo! is a "supporter of FreeBSD". Maybe someone can explain this, >

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Brett Glass
At 07:19 PM 2/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've been through many M&A deals. MS will be able to successfully argue >that the MS+Yahoo! combo does not constitute a monopoly, since: >1) the share of search of the combined companies does not equal that of >it's competitor, Google (source: >http

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
Nikola Lečić wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday, 1 February 2008 at 16:58:31 -0800, johan beisser wrote: [...] "Eat your own dogfood" doesn't come pleasant when your dogfood is

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, 1 February 2008 at 16:58:31 -0800, johan beisser wrote: [...] > > "Eat your own dogfood" doesn't come pleasant when your dogfood is > > crap. > > Su

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erich said: I also wonder how Google earns so much monez with its search engine. Is it just the adds? Is it reallz this simple? On the other side, Google must be so much better than other search engines to get so much more hits to earn money with this free service

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread jerry
Erich said: > I also wonder how Google earns so much monez with its search engine. Is > it just the adds? Is it reallz this simple? > > On the other side, Google must be so much better than other search > engines to get so much more hits to earn money with this free service > via the adds. > > The

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread jerry
> umm.. Uncle Bill is the one doing the buying.. so.. umm.. i read that > as the courts viewing microsoft as becoming the monopoly. > google made a run for the desktop a while back, right? so google is > trying to compete with microsoft on a certain level. you can't exactly > call these things mo

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? it was a news story on the san francisco news. they s

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? it was a news story on the san francisco news. they said that a federal investi

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 1 February 2008 at 16:58:31 -0800, johan beisser wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> It could be anything from more support for FreeBSD to no support >> from Yahoo's side at all anymore. > > I like to think that MS learned their lesson on pulling FreeBSD fro

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, johan beisser wrote: On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: It could be anything from more support for FreeBSD to no support from Yahoo's side at all anymore. I like to think that MS learned their lesson on pulling FreeBSD from production use when they bought Hotmail. Perhap

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread johan beisser
On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: It could be anything from more support for FreeBSD to no support from Yahoo's side at all anymore. I like to think that MS learned their lesson on pulling FreeBSD from production use when they bought Hotmail. Perhaps not. "Eat your own do

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? it was a news story on the san francisco news. they said that a federal investigation was going to decide if there were

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? it was a news story on the san francisco news. they said that a federal investigation was going to decide if there were antitrust issues.

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 01:23:08PM +, Jayton Garnett wrote: > Hi, > > Search for Microsoft Yahoo on Google ;-) and you will see MS offered > $44.6B :-o late yesterday after the big boss of Yahoo resigned. The keyword is "offered to buy", not "bought for". -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROT

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, since two or three minutes, Yahoo also has this news. This does not reflect very well. Erich Jayton Garnett wrote: Hi, Search for Microsoft Yahoo on Google ;-) and you will see MS offered $44.6B :-o late yesterday after the big boss of Yahoo resigned. Jayton On Feb 1, 2008 12:18 PM,

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Jayton Garnett
Hi, Search for Microsoft Yahoo on Google ;-) and you will see MS offered $44.6B :-o late yesterday after the big boss of Yahoo resigned. Jayton On Feb 1, 2008 12:18 PM, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just heard rumours like this on German websites. > > What impact coul

Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? It could be anything from more support for FreeBSD to no support from Yahoo's side at all anymore. Erich ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing