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Bill Gates personally quashed Microsoft-Yahoo merger (allthingsd.com)
24 points by nickb on May 27, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Sorry, but what is marijuana_sql.gif doing as the pic attached to that story? Too funny...


“Yahoo is convinced they are a strategic imperative for Microsoft, although I think sometimes that their execs must be smoking something,” said one source who has been briefed on the talks.


Sure, but a picture used to extol the multitudinous virtues of the pot plant? It seems like there must be some algorithm that thought that picture fit that line, and not a human being.


Bill >> Steve

listening to him is what MSFT should do more of.


Bill >> Steve

listening to him is what MSFT should do more of.


Bill >> Steve

listening to him is what MSFT should do more of.




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