Oh, I even found a web comic pertaining to the phenomenon I mentioned. I guess 
Yahoo! has a bad reputation in the Americas as well as in Europe. Do you have 
similar prejudices in Uganda?

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address

Joseph Mutumi <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>This is a bit off topic but wanted to share it anyway. Think about
>Yahoo
>before you
>plan for this year.
>
>Started the year by doing an audit on some of my accumulated login
>credentials.
>I realized a lot of them use my yahoo email which I noticed I actually
>no
>longer use!
>Yahoo in the news for all the wrong reasons; layoffs, product
>discontinuations, CEO
>woos etc. What happened to all those profit speculations? So what
>killed
>Yahoo?
>
>I did a search and came across this
>http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
>I think this post albeit a bit old, nails it, with one interesting
>insight
>being:
>*Yahoo was killed because they didn't have a hacker-centric culture*
>
>Yahoo which used OSS failed to adopt OSS. OSS and the Linux stack is
>more
>than
>downloading packages for free, its a culture. A proven successful
>business
>model and
>work paradigm. If you believe your organization is using OSS but not
>adopted it watch
>out 2013 may be just another bad year for you.
>
>That said I hope a lot of the IT corps come to their senses and start
>backing community.
>I hope LUG flourishes this year.
>
>Happy New Year
>
>
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