Concerns about Microhoo Yasoft

A couple of emerging concerns about the proposed Yahoo incorporation into Microsoft:

- from Google: "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." fair comment even allowing for its source. Google has benefitted hugely from from the Web's openness, along with a good sense of timing and some brilliant technical insights. It's also put quite a lot back (Has Google benefited more from the web's openness than the Web benefitted from Google's largesse - discuss?)

from Emily Bell: no good ever came from the second and third players teaming up to beat the number one.