M$ $44.6 billion bid to purchase Yahoo

[davijordan]

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule."
- Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha), founder of Buddhism.

corolary:
"If you plan on getting revenge, dig two graves."

from: Filed by Microsoft Corporation pursuant to
Rule 425 of the Securities Act of 1933 and
deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Subject Company: Yahoo! Inc.
Commission File No.: 000-28018

Steve Ballmer - Microsoft Corporation — CEO
We have a lot of work that we’re doing to drive efficiency in the datacenters. I would say our basic view is to not make many of them proprietary. Since we are a platform company, most of the things we figure out how to do, we want to productize for our customers, either by productizing with hardware vendors and in Windows Server or by productizing in our cloud platform, which we can make available to other software vendors. So there’s innovation, but we want to make sure that that’s an innovation we offer to our customer.


Possible satiric translation:
Our products are horrible and we need to fix it. We probably have our ideas from someone else so we can not patent them. If we actually solve a problem, we are going to force it on our customers in a cloud of smoke and mirrors. Our ideas could be shared, but we have no plans to. We will only will let our customers see our innovations and no one elses,.