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Yahoo! Answers is rejecting Open-Source options in answers (the original post that started it all)
Yahoo + Open Source Censorship. A second follow-up (responses to comments)
Yahoo Answers Censorship? Follow-up #3 (more responses to comments)
Yahoo Answers + Open Source Censorship. Yahoo’s reason and the question in… question.
Summary: A full recap with Yahoo’s official reason and the question at the center of this issue.
{The actual post}
I figured I should post a follow-up to my surprisingly popular post about being censored.
When it happened I was just shocked, but once that passed I saw it for what it really is…
As someone who linked to the previous post noted, Yahoo and Microsoft are quite chummy. I also wouldn’t find it too suprising if in a few years people would have to find “alternative” search engines to the mainstream (MSN, Yahoo, etc) because of snowballing censorship.
I don’t like the idea… and I don’t like the power struggle it portrays, but with DRM and the root-kit fiasco that the music industry did, and that non-Microsoft programs are given less than 32MB of memory to use in Vista, it’s not a huge leap of logic.
Who knew suggesting a stable, easy to use operating system was risque?
June 22, 2007 at 7:03 am
The controversy seems to have kicked off again, bigger than ever. The commentary on my site got Dugg, and there are now quite a few new comments. You should check it out!
June 22, 2007 at 9:30 am
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