Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:48:54 -0500 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?Tmlrb2xhIExlxI1pxIc=?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo Message-ID: <47A3E826.4090006@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <20080202042021.562e2a81@anthesphoria.net> References: <47A30E1D.4030609@pacific.net.sg> <2B601BDC-0ED7-4CBC-BF12-89F2BDAA28E7@caustic.org> <20080202012336.GJ79197@dereel.lemis.com> <20080202042021.562e2a81@anthesphoria.net>
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Nikola Lečić wrote: > -----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.) 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/
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