This has turned me off of Yahoo completely.
The new CEO is using this as a money grab because he knows that Yahoo is struggling financially. Desperation is not pretty and the backlash from the tech community, despite strong dislike of facebook in some segments, will finish off Yahoo. Former programmers of the company are beginning to speak out against this new tactic and are embarrassed by it.
No one likes a patent troll.
Yahoo was able to get money from Google because their PPC model applied to search engines. This is not so clear cut in regards to social networking. And that is just one of the patent challenges being filed against FB.
Yang would never have done something like this. Hopefully Microsoft will step in to stop this madness as they are connected to both companies and can use their patent portfolio as leverage to prevent Yahoo from going down a road that they may not recover from.
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