nadir wrote:So i meant something similar to: I don't care much who buys opera.
Meh... I know what you mean, I simply dislike seeing corporations like mickeyshaft, google and fakebook getting more power and control over the WWW, but I suppose it's inevitable...
nadir wrote:Still news like that are not good (more pluralism would always be better, not more concentration).
We're heading for a situation where the company that makes someone's favourite social networking site may be the same company that supplies their browser and the tablet/smartphone that runs it. That can't be healthy - it's pretty much what MS were trying to achieve from the late 90's onwards...
nadir wrote:... waiting for slashdot news: someone has heard that someone said to someone that Italy will be bought by facebook... and there they fall, within a couple of hours... That is how it works, no? A whole country goes south because someone is bullshiting a bit, only for the fun of it.
I believe there's something called "twatter" for that...
But first they have to take Greece off the EU's hands -- latest I heard is the ECB has offered Farcebook €35 billion to make the deal.
