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        <title>Microsoft buys Yahoo!</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Now MSN Search will finally be able to take on Google!...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:01:55 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Cameron Purdy</jf:author>
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        <title>It is permissible, indeed...</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[...since YUI is under a BSD license, which is amongst the most permissive ones. For instance, a part of the TCP/IP stack of Windows itself comes from one of the BSD OSes (since Windows 2003, if I remember well)....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:58:17 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Zala GOUPIL</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: YUI</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><blockquote>Definitely there will be a fork.</blockquote><br><br>That just sounds like rhetoric.  Microsoft appears to make rational business decisions, so if it makes sense it would stay, no?<br><br>Sam Ramji from Microsoft Open Source Labs...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:12:07 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 2, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Ingo Boegemann</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: YUI</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Definitely there will be a fork.</blockquote>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:45:42 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 2, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Donald Smith</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: The beginning of the end for both companies</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[But they're buying Yahoo!.  That's how it works these days.  Which means if you give a company $44 billion dollars for the rights to buy the company, you get the company and all their assets, including the $44 billion.  Of course, it's not as simple as...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:42:49 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 2, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Aaron Evans</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: YUI</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I'm sure M$ will be happy to maintain and foster a nice open source alternative to its own proprietary options ...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:03:58 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 2, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Ingo Boegemann</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: YUI</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><blockquote>What happens to <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/">YUI</a> if Microsoft buys Yahoo?</blockquote><br>Definitely there will be a fork.</blockquote>
All what I wish is that M$ won't kill this nice library.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:22:50 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 1, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Hazem Saleh</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: YUI... and PHP ?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Hi all !...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:18:17 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 1, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>charly clairmont</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: New York Times: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44b</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Lastly, what should we call the new Microsoft/Yahoo amalgam?  MicroHoo? YaSoft? Moo? MaHoooooooo!?</blockquote>

Definitely Mooooooo!!!!]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:41:44 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <title>Re: New York Times: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44b</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Wheres the relation to Enterprise Java? Maybe I'm missing it.</blockquote>OpenID? YUI, in use by a number of web frameworks? Microsoft? Yahoo? To me, all these work together to make this fundamentally worthy of note.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:01:30 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 1, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Joseph Ottinger</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: New York Times: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44b</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Wheres the relation to Enterprise Java? Maybe I'm missing it.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:48:15 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Roy Russo</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: New York Times: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44b</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[This is bad news, I've been a yahoo! Mail user for 10 years, I don't want to move :-(]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:53:05 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 1, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Zhubin Salehi</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: New York Times: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44b</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>The New York Times is only one of the many sources saying that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/business/01cnd-yahoo.html?ref=technology">Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo</a> for 44 billion USD, or roughly $31 a share (62% over...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:43:39 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 1, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Konstantin Ignatyev</jf:author>
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        <title>The beginning of the end for both companies</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[44 billion down the tubes. What percent of Microsoft's cash war chest is that?

That was always the question, how could MS ever truly go down if it had those cash reserves. Answer: blowing it on failed acquisitions.

This is a dream come true.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:54:36 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 1, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Constance Eustace</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: YUI</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48293</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><blockquote>What happens to <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/">YUI</a> if Microsoft buys Yahoo?</blockquote><br>Definitely there will be a fork.</blockquote>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:30:08 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 1, 2008</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Tommy Hellstroem</jf:author>
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