[ILUG] Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!

[Michael Watterson]

david.howe at howesystems.com wrote:
> Does this mean that Microsoft is now one of the biggest users of open
> source software? And they are paying $44bn for the privilege.
>   
Shirley Google?
>
> On Fri, February 1, 2008 12:30 pm, Niall O Broin wrote:
>   
>> On 1 Feb 2008, at 12:20, Robert Sweetnam wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> A lot being an understatement!
>>>
>>> If it goes ahead it no doubt FreeBSD will be shown the door.
>>>       
>> Yahoo is a heavy user of FreeBSD and MySQL. No doubt M$ will want to
>> eat their own dogfood but one presumes they'll be mindful of how big
>> a job that was on Hotmail.
>>
>>     
ha
They could always do an apple and Skin BSD with Win7 desktop, If Apple 
can throw away the mac OS and use BSD and then charge people for a new 
OS everytime they do equivalent of a Windows Service pack.

-- 
Mike