Yahoo + Microsoft
Friday, February 01, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Should Yahoo accept Microsoft's offer? 
Sure. What else do they have to do?
Most tech companies are pretty aimless, people think there's a grand plan to Apple or Google, but I bet there isn't. They just throw stuff up on the wall, if it sticks, do version 2.0. 
Does Yahoo + Microsoft make sense?
Nahh. It's like the dead leading the blind.
The only reason the deal makes sense is because it's the only thing either company could do that anyone might possibly care about.
It would make more sense for Twitter to acquire Yahoo. At least then they'd get some servers that could stay up for 24 hours straight.
Anyway, I might have been too hard on em. But then again...
PS: To those who think Twitter couldn't acquire Yahoo, I might have agreed until we saw NeXT "buy" Apple.
PPS: Scott Rosenberg sees it as "a path to failure for both companies."
PPPS: Scoble thinks it's interesting.
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