Microsoft - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:20:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Microsoft - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 Offers not refused https://www.quakerranter.org/offers_not_refused/ https://www.quakerranter.org/offers_not_refused/#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:14:00 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=642 Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is the Godfather of our age. His letter to Yahoo’s board in their unsolicited takeover attempt is the twenty-first century white collar rewrite of The Godfather’s “I’ll make him an offer he don’t
refuse”:

“Depending on the nature of your response, Microsoft reserves the right
to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo’s shareholders are
provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our
proposal.”

Are the chills going up your spine? Flickr, Del.icio.us, Yahoo Pipes, heck half my universe would suddenly be run by the boys from Redmond, coders not particularly known for their Web 2.0 sleekness or social ingenuity.

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