I agree with what you said about yahoo. I don't like the idea of people
being able to patent a concept. Let people have rights to software they
write, but not the idea itself. If the software patent idea had come
out a few years earlier, someone could have gotten a patent for encoding
digital audio in a compressed form. This would have been a headache for
the people who developed mp3 and the other formats that have come after it.
On 3/15/2012 9:17, Michael Butash wrote:
I was chatting with folks at PayPal when they told me their CEO Scott
Thompson was poached by yahoo to be the next inline to try and
resurrect them to relevancy. I found that odd until I heard he got
27mil to do it. I'd probably even sell my soul to microsoft for that.
I'd wondered just what he would try, as it seems pretty dismal for
yahoo these days (but hey, even lycos is still around!). Pretty sad
that patent trolling is the best he could come up with, indicating
it'll be yet another revolving door CEO position there if he fails, or
worse, he's successful as little more than a parasite on the industry
already plagued with them. That's a hell of a legacy from "made
paypal big and strong".
Way to innovate there buddy. Though I dislike Facebook, I almost hope
they win just to force yahoo die off once and for all.
-mb
On 03/15/2012 07:51 AM, keith smith wrote:
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