Comments on: Microsoft Makes Major Bid For Yahoo

$44.6 Billion Offer Comes As Search Engine Giant Prepares For Layoffs

[brianbwb-2009]

Long live piracy, it is the only weapon we have. The hackers are your true heroes, and time will prove it.

[mcv57]

Let the MEGA MERGER GAMES begin, at the forefront we have fake humanitian, private information mongo, and government puppet, Bill Gates.

[sophielhu]

i use Yahoo! for everything, every day. MSN and Google never really appealed to me at all, personally i think Google and MSN are boring and Yahoo is way more interactive with their e-mail and and news stuff.
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[dan_shields-2009]

i use Yahoo! for everything, every day. MSN and Google never really appealed to me at all, personally i think Google and MSN are boring and Yahoo is way more interactive with their e-mail and and news stuff. i hope Yahoo turns around and kicks the *** out of Google...look at Pepsi..they went bankrupt 3 times before they stomped on Coke..i have much faith in Yahoo

[toolmangler-2009]

To all of you who look up to Microsoft as a beacon of capitalism..all I can tell you is that you are all sheep who are eager for another good shearing.

Posted by flash2368 at 04:24 PM : Feb 01, 2008



If Steve Jobs had not tried to corner the computer market himself, Microsoft would not have the clout it does today, I have been in this industry from the ''get-go'' and watched as market manipulators like RadioShack (Tandy), Apple and a host of others all tried to go to the "you''ve got to buy it from me" mindset for replacement parts. I have had many different computers from Heathkit to IBM and watched as Bill Gates made the world sit back and take notice because he made use of a simple form of "Enlightened Self Interest" and ''Open sourced'' the majority of his programming code so that everybody could write programs themselves. You would do well to "kwitchurbitchin" and roll up your sleeves (metaphorically) to grab and growl with the rest of us. (Like Monk says, "Its a jungle out there")

[speakinup]

"Yahoo is yet another Fascist News organization. YOu are obviously some Southern White Male Fascist to make such an ibeclic statement in support of a fascist news orgainization, similar to the Fascist OXymoron channel. Posted by neoconism




Who peed your corn flakes neoconism ? I''ve never noticed this - dang, I start to use them more often. Thanks for the tip.

[bobnjersey]

[Which means, one has to use the tools to make something others want; not just keep them patched together. Not a bad thing as many techs spend their lives fixing rubbish products and not having time left to use said tools to make a creative product or service TO sell others.]
[Posted by hypnotoad72 at 04:12 PM : Feb 01, 2008]

i was speaking of the ms products as the ''tools'' that become the problems ... then they have more ''tools'' to sell to you to fix the first ''tool'' they sold.

it''s a scam ... and their lack of liability for their buggy products allows them to continue it.

the day they have liability for the products they sell ... and the inefficiencies and exploits they produce ... will be the first day they take these issues seriously.

[denn034]

Free enterprise at it''s finest! This can only help to strengthen the jobs of it''s employees and that''s a good thing. Go Microsoft!

[flash2368]

ENOUGH!! I cannot imagine that Microsoft would be allowed to close such a deal. Their domination of the PC has resulted in the miserable monopolistic situation we have in the computer industry today. To all of you who look up to Microsoft as a beacon of capitalism..all I can tell you is that you are all sheep who are eager for another good shearing.

[hypnotoad72]

creative capitalism means selling products that are supposed to be tools that help you solve problems ... except they themselves become the problems ... and ms has the ''''tools'''' to solve it ... a $295/incident support fee.

creative capitalism means not having to bear any responsibility for any of this ... directly or indirectly ... as per their license agreement.

what other industry can do this ... sell garbage ... take no responsibility for it ... and charge you more to assist in making it something you can barely use?

Posted by bobnjersey
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Thanks much for your response.

The bonus is, looking at where things _appear_ to be going, they are eliminating the concept of support. Which means, one has to use the tools to make something others want; not just keep them patched together. Not a bad thing as many techs spend their lives fixing rubbish products and not having time left to use said tools to make a creative product or service TO sell others.

In ways, this shake-up of the US economy, right now, isn''t such a bad thing. I just hope there''s a greater good at the end of the day.