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Yahoo's Openness Asset

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
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What if Yahoo's main value isn't its search engine or its advertising business, but the openness that makes it more Net-native and hacker-friendly than Microsoft? Does Microsoft understand the role this same openness is in large part to credit for Google's success as well?

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Bob_Robertson ·
> Does Microsoft understand the role this same openness is in large part to credit for Google's success as well?

In a word? NO! Two words? HELL NO!

That's why Microsoft doesn't understand they can't "win" by buying Yahoo. Once MS has it, "Yahoo" will no longer have the credibility is now has.
Bob_Robertson ·
Well, poop. "Hit the button just too fast".
jdixon ·
> Once MS has it, "Yahoo" will no longer have the credibility is now has.

And when you consider that Yahoo has made more than its share of missteps along the way (claiming to own your posts on their mailing lists, just for starters), you begin to realize just how lost Microsoft is when it comes to ethics.
hkwint ·
Quoting:Well, poop. "Hit the button just too fast".


Well, I'm not that good at US-English, but I always thought the poo is supposed to hit the fan and not the button, right?

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