Dean Landolt

Egads. Microsoft offering $44 bil for Yahoo! eh? Smells an awful lot like desperation. Perhaps it’s not the same as the AOL/TW boondoggle as far as mismatching industries go, but it’s certainly a mismatched culture. As Kevin Dangoor notes:

Years ago, Microsoft bought HotMail. At the time, HotMail’s servers were all running FreeBSD. Somewhere along the way, the transitioned all of HotMail’s servers over to Windows.

I can’t wait. Google probably can’t either!

We need a way to start owning our own data, and soon. Later will be too late.

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