Nikola Lečić wrote:
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday, 1 February 2008 at 16:58:31 -0800, johan beisser wrote:
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"Eat your own dogfood" doesn't come pleasant when your dogfood is
crap.
Sure, but they're more used to it.
I'd like to see a condition on the takeover that Y! continue to use
FreeBSD :-)
Whatever be the case, I've always been wondering why people say that
Yahoo! is a "supporter of FreeBSD". Maybe someone can explain this,
but what I can see is the following:
* They don't say a single word about FreeBSD on their official pages.
The wider audience knows nothing about the fact that Yahoo! is powered
by FreeBSD.
* They don't have FreeBSD version of Yahoo! Messenger -- it would be a
bit courteous, I think...
* Their webmail interface produces some of the most horrific e-mails you
will see in your life. Compared to the e-mail standards, these e-mails
are vulgar, which in a strong contrast to the standards-compliant and
open-source nature of their base system. Therefore their users don't
benefit very much from Yahoo!'s underlying OS.
(Unlike Yahoo! Mail, GMail produces very nice text-only e-mails.)
Yahoo provides hardware, colo, and bandwidth. They allow their staff to
support this infrastructure and in other ways to support the project.
--
Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/
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