Open Source, Microsoft, and Yahoo's Dim Future
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Ray Ozzie has defined open source as "much more potentially disruptive" than Google for Microsoft's business model. I think it's obvious that open source contributed to the Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-up.
Sadly, the sharks are already circling Yahoo, and I expect that eventually it will be broken up and sold piecemeal to satiate the stockholders. Microsoft can then be free to bid on the parts that fit more easily into its corporate vision. I guess instead of a Microhoo, it'll be something more like a Microminihoo. Sounds like a small victory, to me.
Ray Ozzie has defined open source as "much more potentially disruptive" than Google for Microsoft's business model. I think it's obvious that open source contributed to the Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-up.
Sadly, the sharks are already circling Yahoo, and I expect that eventually it will be broken up and sold piecemeal to satiate the stockholders. Microsoft can then be free to bid on the parts that fit more easily into its corporate vision. I guess instead of a Microhoo, it'll be something more like a Microminihoo. Sounds like a small victory, to me.
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