they already are. <br><br>when a tiny ball of something blows up or implodes, it does it perceptably quickly, with a quick pop. when something as planetarily massive as microsoft pops, it does so rather slower... this is the rumble we've been hearing for a while. the death of an old stubborn way clinging on with frictionless like grip to the swift better way charging away past carving the larger future.<br>
<br>and we all like large futures. :D<br><br>bye bye prioprietary as we've known it, bye-bye.<br><br>:)<br><br><br><br>to the rest of whats previously been said on this...<br><br>oh dear, oh so much chatter about the market giants of bizniz.<br>
... are we not FSF idealists? STALLMAN FOREVER! (oh what an unfortunate name for inspirational cause leading cheer)<br>call me antipoliticalleftism names, but are any of us overlooking perhaps one of the greatest and most consistently strengthening market forces? ooee tha pee pole! (we the people)<br>
<br>or is it not considered "market" in a digital free sharing comunity?<br><br>let's slap some appreciation pay on it then... lets start getting handy with easy one click payment integration across the board. <br>
<br>just a suggestion thrown into the fractal. :D<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Clayton</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew@digital-domain.net">andrew@digital-domain.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:32:38 +0000, Barry Carr wrote:<br><br>><br>> Gary Short wrote:<br>> > <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/yahoo-and-future-of-internet.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/yahoo-and-future-of-internet.html</a><br>
> ><br>> That doesn't pull any punches, does it?<br>><br>> I can't really see either the EU or the DoJ letting this deal<br>> through, to be honest. MS has too much anti-competitive form to be<br>
> trusted. In addition, I couldn't see the FCC allowing Google to buy<br>> Yahoo either for obvious reasons.<br><br>As someone noted recently. The only asset Yahoo (Yawho?) has is flickr<br>and Microsoft is going to put themselves way into the red purchasing<br>
them. Then they'll waste time and more money converting everything over<br>to windows/asp/sql server etc.<br><br>So DO let the deal go through and let Microsoft self -destruct.<br><br><br>Andrew<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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