From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 2 03:48:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Chat@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D7F16A41B for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from supernews.unixathome.org (supernews.unixathome.org [216.168.29.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A4413C455 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B021703E; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:48:57 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from supernews.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (supernews.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Zd7-wh3-TfUt; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:48:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from laptop.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [72.94.192.69]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971D017038; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:48:53 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47A3E826.4090006@langille.org> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:48:54 -0500 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080122) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?Tmlrb2xhIExlxI1pxIc=?= References: <47A30E1D.4030609@pacific.net.sg> <2B601BDC-0ED7-4CBC-BF12-89F2BDAA28E7@caustic.org> <20080202012336.GJ79197@dereel.lemis.com> <20080202042021.562e2a81@anthesphoria.net> In-Reply-To: <20080202042021.562e2a81@anthesphoria.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: FreeBSD-Chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:48:57 -0000 Nikola Lečić wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100 > Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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.) Yahoo provides hardware, colo, and bandwidth. They allow their staff to support this infrastructure and in other ways to support the project. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/