Comments

• CoolGuy

  2008-02-21 16:45:45

  lol.
  
  steve got pwned by larry.
  
  seriously i think M$ is loosing out and steve has lost control over what he is doing. this is a guy who has zero technical knowledge, has never written a single line of code, cant make out any difference between a asp or php code...lol. i dont know if any m$ executive has advised steve over the technical hurdles of moving yahoo to m$ technology.
  
  rofl.i think no one will dare to go near the chair throwing ninja.
  
  entire blame of M$ doom will be on steve and bill has side stepped out of this mess really easy.
  
  by doing a hostile take over - this is really going to blow out of proportion. everyone is making fun of m$ so openly, they have become a joke of what m$ used to be a decade back.
  
  look at the action figures / toys stuff m$ is doing lately. everyone is laughing at them. they are trying so hard to be like google. haha.
  
  just cant stop laughing.

• CoolGuy

  2008-02-21 16:49:00

  hum...letter is a fake larry. but still...M$ has become clown of the tech industy.

• BoomBoom

  2008-02-21 18:28:35

  Here's the action figure M$ left out of the lineup, Superstupid Steve. Superstupid Steve comes with:
  
  - A BB for a brain in an empty head. Shake him and hear him rattle! - A pile of stolen patents for things someone else invented! - Extra sweat! - Awesome monkeydance action! - Developers developers developers developers! - Buggy software that doesn't work! - Buggy patches for buggy software that *still* doesn't work! - A fake sense of security! (along with thousands of exploits and weaknesses) - An EULA written by the Ghost of Stalin and the RIAA! - MONO! (Both the poisonware and the disease) - Office chair grenades! - FUD machinegun! - Arrogance out the wazoo! - Megalomaniac world domination plans! - And not a snowball's chance in Hell of ever having a clue.
  
  :P

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-02-21 22:39:12

  I've received an interesting messages about Microsoft's attempt to steal Yahoo and the similarity this has to its OOXML push.
  
  

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  This VNUnet article dovetails nicely with the recent piece on Groklaw[1]
  
  http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2210121/microsoft-engages-proxy-fight
  
  I wonder if a deep-cutting summary or analysis can be written to Slashdot without using the M-word.
  
  The plan seems to be to lobby and intrigue behind the scenes to replace the board with a more obedient set. Before that happens, Yahoo should re-license Zimbra as GPL. Also, how big a contributer is Yahoo to open source development in general and BSD in particular? That could be one of the main motivations for hostile take over.
  
  I also notice that the astroturfers have returned to slashdot in droves since about Monday or so and, probably related, there is article after article of advertising.
  
  [1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
  
  

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  Also, about the last attempts to save the cash cow :
  
  

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  Houston, we have a problem ... ... when trying to paint a nice face before the BRM ...
  
  Google News Alert for: (OpenDocument OR ODF) AND ("Ecma 376" OR OXML OR OOXML OR "office open xml" OR "open XML")
  
  Microsoft pledges not to sue over open source CNet News.com Blog - USA The company does not natively support the alternative Open Document Format, or ODF, standard in Office 2007. Although it does not mention ODF specifically ... See all stories on this topic
  
  MS to publish free APIs for Windows, Office Electronista - Santa Clara,CA,USA Office 2007 has been a particular subject of investigation and has been criticized for its switch to the Microsoft-made Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, ... See all stories on this topic
  
  Microsoft Promises Interoperability Digitaltrends.com - Lake Oswego,OR,USA Microsoft also says it won't sue open source developers who build or distribute non-commercial implementations of its protocols, although developers who ... See all stories on this topic
  
  

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  Microsoft is fighting. Don't give it too much room for manipulation.