i really wanted this to happen
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| peragrin May 04, 2008 6:26 AM EDT |
I was so hoping that the crushing anaconda would try to swallow the crocodile whole. It would have dragged both companies under. MSFT can't afford yahoo anymore. In a competitive marketplace with mind share and their being known for being a bully MSFT just doesn't have the resources to merge two completely different companies. it would have killed them both. what a shame to see such potential go to such a waste |
| Scott_Ruecker May 04, 2008 7:40 AM EDT |
I agree, it would have been interesting to see just long the pill of Yahoo stayed stuck in the throat of Microsoft. |
| vainrveenr May 04, 2008 7:27 PM EDT |
Also see the LXer comments at http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/27184/ following Shuttleworth's comments on ' Microsoft's about to 'swallow a hand-grenade' '. Obviously, the "Second Scenario" based upon Swishers comments at http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080425/while-ballmer-and-yang-f... seems most likely to pass. Ballmer basically projected these intentions over an indistinct time period when he writes near the end of his letter to Yang: Quoting:We will move forward and will continue to innovate and grow our business at Microsoft with the talented team we have in place and potentially through strategic transactions with other business partners. While Yang will be no doubt urgently trying to "put up" some serious Yahoo!-shareholder value after having failed to effectively "shut up" with Microsoft, MS can now purchase the smaller Google-alliance types businesses Ballmer hints at doing in his letter to Yang. After having done so, and should Yang fail to raise Yahoo! from Wall Street expectations -- in six months? one year? two years? -- then MS will be ready to easily acquire Yahoo! To use the top analogy of this thread, the crushing anaconda would then swallow whole just "a small [Yahoo!] lizard" at this future time . |
| jacog May 05, 2008 12:59 AM EDT |
I am reminded of a scene in Return of the Jedi. A bipedal Imperial Walker marches through the forest shooting muppets, and then the muppets release a stack of logs to roll down the hill at the walker. The logs roll under the walker and it gets unstable, its legs wobble, it suddenly looks comical, clumsy, not menacing anymore - and then it falls over. The muppets rejoice. That Imperial Walker is Microsoft. Can I be the Swedish Chef? EDIT: Steven A. Ballmer? Instead of looking the A. up, I think I'll insert my own word as his middle name. |
| tuxchick May 05, 2008 9:01 AM EDT |
Nothing about this Yahoo deal makes sense, except as a Carly Fiorina "I wanna make a beeeeg deal and be a beeeeeg shot!" scenario. |
| vainrveenr May 05, 2008 2:33 PM EDT |
Another appropriate metaphorical image of Microsoft's strategy towards Yahoo! comes from 'Yahoo: cold, soft, easy to digest' found at http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/05/05/yahoo-c...
Quoting:Now that Microsoft’s attempt to buy Yahoo seems to have failed, there’s a lot of speculation about Microsoft’s strategy. Since Yahoo! MUST hold its annual shareholders meeting sometime before mid-July, it's conceivably possible that Yahoo could be "dead meat" before its latest deadline. |
| tuxchick May 05, 2008 5:06 PM EDT |
If shareholders actually mattered, would Ballmer still have a job? |
| garymax May 05, 2008 5:32 PM EDT |
[q]If shareholders actually mattered, would Ballmer still have a job?[/q] You've got to remember who you're dealing with here. And chairs are an abundant resource... |
| thenixedreport May 06, 2008 1:55 AM EDT |
Something tells me that Yahoo has something up its sleeve.... |
| rijelkentaurus May 06, 2008 3:03 AM EDT |
Quoting: Something tells me that Yahoo has something up its sleeve.... Relicensing Zimbra under the GPLv3 would be nice. :) Hey, think on a grand scale!! It would also make them less attractive because the source code would be in the wild and MS couldn't kill it by buying Yahoo. |
| NoDough May 06, 2008 10:20 AM EDT |
Zimbra is already open source licensed under the YPL which, if I understand it correctly, is very much like GPLv2. |
| helios May 07, 2008 5:42 AM EDT |
Being a quivering tower of jello on this matter, I rejoice in the fact that this, above all, is ultimately a victory for Google. Now, we all hold our collective breathes to see if they get as drunk with power as did MS. Some say they already have. Right Chinese citizens? h |
| rijelkentaurus May 07, 2008 6:28 AM EDT |
Quoting: the YPL which, if I understand it correctly, is very much like GPLv2. IANAL...but I don't think that's quite correct. It's similar in a lot of ways, including allowing you to have the source, change the source, distribute the changes and forcing people to accept the same license to grant the same freedoms...which sounds very much like the GPL. The scary thing is... Quoting: 3.2 - In any copy of the Software or in any Modification you create, You must retain and reproduce, any and all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are included in the Software in the same form as they appear in the Software. This includes the preservation of attribution notices in the form of trademarks or logos that exist within a user interface of the Software. As I read it, it means no "Iceweasel" of Zimbra, you must use the Zimbra logos, etc. I am not sure how that would impact someone using a modified Zimbra if MS bought Yahoo and decided to put a stop to that...could they stop further distribution if they terminated the license? Quoting: # Term and Termination Not sure...but the GPL would take care of any and all concerns, IMO. Again, IANAL. |
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