Yahoo Crosses The Line

#1

Post by barrynolan » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 11:38 AM UTC

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#2

Post by smeg » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 11:42 AM UTC

Yep. I don't even use/like Facebook, but I just deleted my 10 year old Yahoo account in protest (in truth it was only a secondary account after Google, but still).

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#3

Post by tzaman » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 11:46 AM UTC

Their actions just show how desperate they are. Bye bye Yahoo! and thanks for the fish.

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#4

Post by barrynolan » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 11:58 AM UTC

US Patent 7406501 ... "Conversion of an instant message to an e-mail message" WTF...Is that it?

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#5

Post by pagehub » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 12:02 PM UTC

Totally agree, compete on innovation - not by patent troling! Goodbye Yahoo!, shame you decided to disgrace yourself in such a way.

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#6

Post by viggity » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 12:05 PM UTC

I really don't like saying this, but here it goes:

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

We need real, substantive patent reform in this country.

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Post by IgorPartola » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 12:06 PM UTC

barrynolan wrote: post #4

US Patent 7406501 ... "Conversion of an instant message to an e-mail message" WTF...Is that it?

Google does that! Quick Yahoo! sue them!

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Post by IgorPartola » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 12:07 PM UTC

smeg wrote: post #2

Yep. I don't even use/like Facebook, but I just deleted my 10 year old Yahoo account in protest (in truth it was only a secondary account after Google, but still).

This is why I use my own domain for my primary email address. If Google decides to pull some kind of crap on me, I can always ditch them without having to write that silly "My new email is" message to all my contacts.

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Post by klez » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 12:10 PM UTC

barrynolan wrote: post #4

US Patent 7406501 ... "Conversion of an instant message to an e-mail message" WTF...Is that it?

IMHO the linked article misunderstood what this is all about. I think it's more the "Reply to this thread by replying to this email" facebook does when you receive a message notification.

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Post by nodemaker » Tue, Mar 13, 2012, 12:10 PM UTC

viggity wrote: post #6

I really don't like saying this, but here it goes: Don't hate the player, hate the game. We need real, substantive patent reform in this country.

When the player is a huge corporation consisting of numerous layers of management, it is very hard not to hate them.

This player will most likely also lobby aggressively to thwart any attempts at reforming the patent system since it is one of its few remaining sources of revenue.