Google has finally gone on record regarding Microsoft's bid for Yahoo:
So Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies -- and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.
Read the blog post here.
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I was surprised that the Official Google Blog had such strong words on Microsoft's move. They are making it abundantly clear that Microsoft is not just their enemy, but average Joe's enemy as well. They really talked hard.
I was as well. There was a lot of emotion and hostility behind their post. I understand Google's opinion, however, as Microsoft has continuously been opposed to the open-source movement.
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