:If Yahoo Implodes, What's the Effect on Open Source?
If Yahoo Implodes, What's the Effect on Open Source? Jun 20, 2008, 18 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5696 reads) (Other stories by Glyn Moody)
"One of the interesting aspects of Microsoft's long-running pursuit of Yahoo has been the potential knock-on effects for open source. Although the company doesn't make much of the fact, it uses a lot of free software, and has helped open source projects by employing some of the top hackers...
"More relevantly for open source, Jeremy Zawodny, one of the top MySQL experts, and the leading open source evangelist within Yahoo, has also left..."