Bill Gates Wants Yahoo’s People. The Feeling isn’t Mutual.

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This is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week. Bill Gates is willing to pay a lot for engineering talent. Asked what makes Yahoo worth more than $40 billion, Gates pointed not to the company’s products, its huge base of advertisers, or its market share, but rather to Yahoo’s engineers. Those people, he said, are what Microsoft [...]

Bill Gates Wants Yahoo’s People. The Feeling isn’t Mutual.

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February 21, 2008

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2 Comments on “Bill Gates Wants Yahoo’s People. The Feeling isn’t Mutual.”
  1. JC John SESE Cuneta says:
    February 21, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    lawlz

    Can’t agree more. I hope the Yahoo! Engineers go for Google :p Google supports FLOSS, Micro$oft supports the not-so-open OOXML.

    ISO Standard ODF vs M$ OOXML (feeling standard) = ODF FTW! (for the win)

    :p

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  2. blozoom! says:
    February 23, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    This just in, Ouch! – Microsoft Current Engineers

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