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From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo
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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. Perhaps not.
> 
this came into my mind when I have read the news.

On the other side, I think FreeBSD itself independent enough to continue 
even with a huge client base (in number of machines running it) is lost.

> "Eat your own dogfood" doesn't come pleasant when your dogfood is crap.
> 
My banana bush is blooming soon. It seems that I will have a better 
experience then.

Erich