Let's face it, open source software runs the Internet. Without it we wouldn't have basic services like DNS, or even the web server that's sending you this page. This isn't a new phenomenon. People have been writing and distributing OSS software since the Internet was born. I'm always amused when people characterize it as a new-fangled thing.
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Google, Yahoo, MySpace team up on OpenSocial
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Yahoo, Google and MySpace have formed a foundation to promote the OpenSocial platform as a neutral, community-governed specification for building social-networking applications, the companies announced Tuesday.
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Microsoft rejects Yahoo! rejection
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Just a few hours after Yahoo! rejected Microsoft's $44.6bn purchase offer, the Redmond-based software giant has responded, reiterating that it "reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!'s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal."
Read more »Yahoo Board to Reject Microsoft Bid
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Yahoo Inc.'s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says.
Read more »How Would GNU/Linux Users Be Affected by Yahoo-Microsoft Merger?
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Articles about Microsoft's bid have probably tired you to death by now, but this article discusses one particular aspect of the potential takeover, namely its effect on GNU/Linux and BSD users. Here's a point-by-point analysis of the impact, covering several of the key issues:
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Google Offers to Help Yahoo Fight Off Microsoft
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Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company's help in any effort to thwart Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, say people familiar with the matter.
Read more »Will the real monopolist please stand up?
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That didn’t take long. The lawyers already are issuing statements over the Microsoft bid for Yahoo.
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Yahoo throws weight behind OpenID standard
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In one of the most significant moves yet in the growing push toward service interoperability on the Web, tech giant Yahoo announced Thursday that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal Internet log-in.
Read more »RMS: Contempt for freedom of speech
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"Yahoo demonstrates its contempt for freedom of speech.
This article uses the misleading propaganda terms "piracy" and "intellectual property". See Words to Avoid..."
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Urgent note from RMS
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" Boycott Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, and WebTV for political censorship."
Read more »Yahoo Challenge to Google Has Roots in Open Source
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If you want to get your hands on an open source version of some of Google's core technologies, maybe you should ask Yahoo.
Read more »FOSS developers need to pay more attention to Web 2.0
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"Web 2.0 software-as-a-service applications built on top of the LAMP stack now generate several orders of magnitude more revenue than any companies seeking to directly monetize open source. And most of the software used by those Web 2.0 companies above the commodity platform layer is proprietary. Not only that, Web 2.0 is siphoning developers and buzz away from open source."
Read more »Yahoo Censoring Open Source
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According to avid Yahoo'er, Amanda Kerik, Yahoo seems to have developed a policy of censoring answers in their "Yahoo! Answers" service, if that answer contains a suggestion to use Open Source alternatives to Microsoft software.
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