Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 04:20:21 +0100 From: Nikola =?UTF-8?B?TGXEjWnEhw==?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, johan beisser <jb@caustic.org>, Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Cc: FreeBSD-Chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo Message-ID: <20080202042021.562e2a81@anthesphoria.net> In-Reply-To: <20080202012336.GJ79197@dereel.lemis.com> References: <47A30E1D.4030609@pacific.net.sg> <2B601BDC-0ED7-4CBC-BF12-89F2BDAA28E7@caustic.org> <20080202012336.GJ79197@dereel.lemis.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> 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. > > Sure, but they're more used to it. > > I'd like to see a condition on the takeover that Y! continue to use > FreeBSD :-) Whatever be the case, I've always been wondering why people say that Yahoo! is a "supporter of FreeBSD". Maybe someone can explain this, but what I can see is the following: * They don't say a single word about FreeBSD on their official pages. The wider audience knows nothing about the fact that Yahoo! is powered by FreeBSD. * They don't have FreeBSD version of Yahoo! Messenger -- it would be a bit courteous, I think... * Their webmail interface produces some of the most horrific e-mails you will see in your life. Compared to the e-mail standards, these e-mails are vulgar, which in a strong contrast to the standards-compliant and open-source nature of their base system. Therefore their users don't benefit very much from Yahoo!'s underlying OS. (Unlike Yahoo! Mail, GMail produces very nice text-only e-mails.) - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBR6PhkfzDP9K2CKGYAQPIlAP+I2tzqUTqVG+YiEjaJ9Lh28mgNq+w/VeW TMZBl8/IfYy/N1W/O1iHIHwanJSkM1+FwtWoneLAxL1MdcqlekpDZ52cAdz1F8TI ti2zH5+5huQfEJZrZhN9LKVIuvgZoj0THKzaDKlBhKEnkDGNCxSaI0vuknEJclDl upSe96KxsT0= =Xcqn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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