-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Google, Yahoo strike ad deal

,----[ Quote ]
| Just hours after saying it ended talks with Microsoft, Yahoo announced that
| it will start running advertising from Google alongside Yahoo search results.
|
| Yahoo expects the deal, which has a 10-year term, to generate US$250 million
| to US$450 million in operating cash flow during the first 12 months.
`----

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.p...687326&rid=-50

Microsoft will not start shouting "monopoly" like the IPocrite it is.


Related:

A Patent Lie

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his
| senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, "If people had understood how
| patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented,
| and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete
| standstill today." Mr. Gates worried that "some large company will
| patent some obvious thing" and use the patent to "take as much of
| our profits as they want."
`----

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html


,----[ Quote ]
| ...Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols
| anyone can implement is communism...
| Â*
| ...Mr. Gates' secret is out now--he too was a "communist;" he, too,
| recognized that software patents were harmful-until Microsoft
| became one of these giants...
`----

http://news.com.com/Bill+Gates+and+o...j=news.1071.20


News Analysis: Microsoft General Counsel on DoubleClick and Antitrust

,----[ Quote ]
| This raises a very important question - why didn't Microsoft match Google's
| $3.1 billion offer. Smith would not comment on this, but I can report from
| very good sources that in fact the company did offer to match it, and was
| willing to pay even more to insure that Google did not corner the online ad
| market. But for whatever reasons, the private equity firm that owned the
| majority of DoubleClick's shares decided to go with Google.
|
| [...]
|
| I asked Smith about the irony of Microsoft asking the government to
| support it on antitrust. His response was interesting.
`----

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003561.php
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFIUoVjU4xAY3RXLo4RAlLsAJ93hd3FWYjdwFrRvBPTTQ QWA5YlNgCfULLi
0cxdRG1S50lotY6C/6iW21k=
=LQOn
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----