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February 1, 2008
Microsoft + Yahoo == Bye-Bye Flickr
You've probably seen that Microsoft made an unsolicited buyout bid to the tune of 44.6 Billion-with-a-b dollars for Yahoo!.
My very first thought, when I saw the headline on my yahoo page, was that should Microsoft succeed, I'll have to finally seriously look at Google's "personal home page" stuff.
My second thought - moments later - was that a successful takeover will spell the end of my relationship with Flickr, which up to this point has been overwhelmingly positive.
Posted by dberger at February 1, 2008 8:03 AM
Comments
Why does a MS-subsidiary Flickr mean you would have to go elsewhere? Having just moved and tagged 4 kilophotos, that thought definitely concerns me.
Posted by: Titus at February 1, 2008 8:15 AM
The thing that you'll really have to say bye-bye to is FreeBSD. A non-trivial chunk of @freebsd.org folks work at Yahoo and Yahoo supports their work. Assuming Microsoft succeeds, they will begin the migration of Y! to Microsoft OSs and I doubt they'll be happy to fund development of FreeBSD.
Posted by: Steve S. at February 1, 2008 3:21 PM
(Sigh). The exact sequence of thoughts I had. What looks like our best Flickr alternative?
Posted by: Hendel at February 1, 2008 3:30 PM
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/02/what-would-micr.html
Posted by: Hendel at February 3, 2008 12:58 PM