5/3     so you think microsoft will buy yahoo?
        \_ If yahoo is owned by MS, perhaps they will no longer have scientology
           moles within their organization farming for the email addresses of
           people who are trying to avoid the COS.  Fuck Yahoo, and fuck their
           evil scientology moles!
        \_ God I hope not.  -tom
           \_ Your Christian ethics mean nothing to me.  Do you think
              it'll actually go through?
           \_ Your Christian ethics mean nothing to me. Your sad devotion
              to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the
              stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to short
              the right stock.
           \_ Why would you (or God) care if one giant faceless corporation
              buys another slightly less giant faceless corporation?
              \_ Because M$ will change the interface and ruin a site
                 that I like and use.
                 \_ Exactly.  I use Flickr extensively, and My Yahoo a fair
                    amount, and I'm sure all the positive energy around them
                    will die if MS takes them over.  (Yahoo hasn't been doing
                    a great job at My Yahoo anyway, but Flickr is still the
                    best photo-sharing site for my needs).  -tom
                    \_ And you're aware that Yahoo, giant faceless corporation,
                       owns Flickr?  How does transfering that property to
                       alternate giant faceless corporation matter?  The
                       marketing redesign team is going to rework the ui no
                       matter which giant faceless corporation owns the
                       property.
                       \_ Except the M$ has already proven they cannot
                          design a good UI for their search engine and
                          Yahoo! has proven that they can.
                       \_ If MS buys Yahoo, Yahoo and Flickr will both
                          transition to MS's new webish application
                          architecture, which means they will probably have
                          way too much cruft and won't work well outside
                          IE.  Flickr Uploadr will go away on the Mac,
                          replaced by some piece of .NET shit.  All the
                          good people at Yahoo will bolt, leaving the MS
                          drones to try to integrate Yahoo mail and Hotmail
                          (guess which will win?).  It would be a user
                          disaster.  -tom
                          \_ So you think Yahoo = geniuses and MS = dummies?
                             \_ M$ = doesn't give a shit about anything but
                                their crappy OS. -!tom
                                \_ They seem to have done well with XBOX
                                   and, of course, Office. However, just
                                   look at MSN. That is what Yahoo! would
                                   become.
                             \_ Nice troll.  Look up "less worse."  Yahoo
                                is less worse.  -John