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Date:      Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:41:11 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Microsoft-Yahoo-Offer
Message-ID:  <861w7tgd9k.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080204091025.T31857@gwdu60.gwdg.de> (Konrad Heuer's message of "Mon\, 4 Feb 2008 09\:15\:35 %2B0100 \(CET\)")
References:  <20080204091025.T31857@gwdu60.gwdg.de>

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Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> 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 that by, shall we say, people of
far less discrimination than yourself.

While I don't think anybody seriously expects at this point that Yahoo!
will stop using and supporting FreeBSD for several years at least, the
project will neither be caught unawares nor without a backup plan if it
does happen.

DES (neither a member of nor speaking for core@)
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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