engadget.com — As expected, Yahoo has responded to Microsoft's 3 week ultimatum this morning. The bottom line is pretty clear in a letter signed by Jerry Yang (CEO) and Roy Bostock (chairman). In the "Dear Steve" response to Ballmer they state, "we will not allow you or anyone else to acquire the company for anything less than its full value." They go on to state
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atomic1fireApr 8, 2008
As long as something happens
Closed AccountApr 8, 2008
They're down to a half full can of Coke and a piece of string?
Closed AccountApr 8, 2008
Whurst joke ever.
leepeytonApr 8, 2008
Fail? Balmer is making microsoft crappier by the day. I mean look at vista.
drzeusApr 10, 2008
"the Yahoo employees will get the rather unenjoyable job of reimplimenting their whole BSD based stack on top of Windows, and optimizing it for Internet Explorer. At which point what really would be left of Yahoo, their domain name?"The employees certainly wouldn't be left. Almost no one will be willing to stay if Microsoft wants to do that. A sudden change in philosophy from open source and web standards to Microsoft-centric requirements would be the last straw for most developers at Yahoo!.