____/ BearItAll on Friday 15 June 2007 08:37 : \____
> Oldtech wrote:
>
>> Rafael wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> [H]omer on Tuesday
>>>>> Nerdwizard spake thusly:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yahoo must hire summer-break students, or idiots who have
>>>>>> no village, because they have killed my accounts three
>>>>>> times, for helping out poor windoze idiots, and mentioning
>>>>>> that a Linux or BSD live CDrom can demonstrate that their
>>>>>> equipment is good, or bad!
>>>>>
>>>>> You're not the first:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://slated.org/yahoo_censoring_open_source
>>>>>
>>>>> Once might be an error, but twice seems like policy.
>>>>>
>>>>> Post details and I'll blog it.
>>>>
>>>> I remember posting this to COLA. It's good that you blogged
>>>> it. I guess they have taken the book burning approach.
>>>
>>> [H]omer, that is an interesting read. When stuff like this happen,
>>> perhaps the best thing to do is submit a letter to a corporate official
>>> by name, explaining the incident and concerns.
>>>
>>> Although it could be indicative of a corporate policy, it also could be
>>> due to some idiot in the IT department who monitors postings to that
>>> forum/service, who happens to be bigoted toward a particular product.
>>>
>>> Usually when upper management catches wind of abuses by an employee, is
>>> dealt with swiftly.
>>>
>> I posted a message on the slated.org site.
>> Look, I have been suspended in my most recent persona though this time,
>> they didn't kill my questions, nor my email person.
>>
>> But, the other two, Level 6 after months of great answers, with 14% BEST
>> ANSWERS, were entirely NUKED! Hey, identity was Linuxiac and Linuxiac2.
>>
>> Anything with the word Linux will be wiped from the bowels of Yahoo!
>>
>> The also kill answers that contain BSD or FOSS, FREE Open Source.
>>
>> I see it is a policy of book burning, and denial. Funny, as Yahoo runs
>> on FreeBSD servers!
>
> I don't often go into my old yahoo email account these days, but I went in
> recently because I'm was expecting something and thought it might have been
> sent to there.
>
> Something has changed because almost everything I clicked in there shut down
> my browser with the java console telling me about loads of code errors.
>
> I don't really need Yahoo anymore, I used to love going on there, I could
> spend an evening just on the Yahoo site itself at one time. But it isn't
> really offering me things I can't get better versions of somewhere else,
> including the Yahoo chat, which is very Linux unfriendly now. Their search
> took a major turn for the worse when they changed the results screens to
> flashy adverts and poorly presented results.
>
> Oh well, things move on, yahoo had their day, now they can go because they
> don't have anything to offer me.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Yahoo_is_Book_Burning_Linux_BSD_Open_Source
If this one makes the front page (16 hours, 48 Diggs at the moment), then we'll
probably be hearing many more confessions about deletion by Yahoo. This is
annoying and unacceptable. Someone in the Yahoo team is book burning, unless
it's just a general policy (which is even worse).
Bear in mind that Yahoo not only uses *BSD. Recently, amid the RHT-ORCL tiffs,
it emerged that Yahoo uses GNU/Linux as well. Plenty of it in fact...
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