
Yea stay away from free anti-virus
Poetic justice, coming just after they dissed free anti-virus users.
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Sometimes Old Bill's lackey's do show a spark of creativity.
Brilliant manipulation of the press. Announce a beta, purposely underprepare the hosting server, then make big spash with claiming massive demand for thier new product, so huge it requires them to rebuild thier servers.
That is so good, expect to see Steve Jobs and Co copy it within 12 months.
Just a co-inky-dinky that stanford is also home of SRI, stanford research institute, one of the CIAs favorite contractors.
Oh and don't forget that web proxy service that turned out to be a front created to serve the CIA and FBI.
Does one need help to connect the dots here, or are you awake yet gipper?
Dont ya just love it when fat cats begging for handouts, refer to it as "legislation".
I thought the whole idea of capitalism was that great rewards went to those who take sometimes great risks. They sure like the rewards and keep it to themselves, but now they want Joe Lunch bucket to assume thier risk, while they go off and count thier villas.
No, No, and no again to any bail out.
perfect example of brain dead know nothings covering ground plowed long ago, unfruitfully.
They had wireless messages embeded in city locations about 20 years ago, and guess what, yea the devices can be made cheap enough, but the ninnys never factor in the COST, startup and ongoing of creating and maintaining such a huge database of information that is of marginal value in the first place.
Its all about shutting down a rather large and highly visible and infectious Open Source shop.
A year after this goes down, there will be no more Yahoo Open Source resources free and available to all, it will be history.
Rule number 231 of robber barron kapitalism, if you can't beat something in the market place, buy it and shut it down.