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• Matt,
  
  You just cant be serious. I have not checked for the last few weeks but the top selling laptop in the world the Asus EEE is unable to run Yahoo's major draw card there excellent "Yahoo messenger" . The outdated Linux version as supplied is uninstallable on Ubuntu and if you can be bothered "hand" instalingl it with 3 year out of date dependencies you get a version of yahoo mesenger for Linux so old it has no features.
  
  Yet Skype 2.0 is out of beta and now has Video for linux. Also most Google apps run on Linux and hence the Asus EEE.
  
  What is the Yahoo board thinking. The future is the "Net" and cheap access devices ie the EEE not the "Microsoft" desktop of the past. The growing mass of Linux users are being forced onto other Yahoo competitors products ie Skype and Pidgin and are liking them a lot. Yahoo has a great "Messenger product" and I would love to be able to use it on Ubuntu but alas no wonder Yahoo are a poor second to Google and Gurgling further behind.
  
  In the internet market why would you give away market share you already own. All Windows users migrating to Linux will want their "Yahoo Messenger". They can certainly have their Skype. This has to be one of the dumbest marketing blunders ever. Yahoo board and hence its shareholders have not only given away customers but handed them to Skype and Google. I just cant believe it when I hear yahoo moaning about loosing market share to Google!!!!!!!
  
  Love your Column. In reply to: "Open source is in our DNA, argues Yahoo! exec"

  March 15, 2008

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