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Re: Flickr Users Concerned About Possible Microsoft Takeover

Dan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:30:58 -0000

I'm always amused by the people who are so offended by other expressing their opinions. You want to write our concerns off as "righteous indignation", "sense-of-entitlement" or some other silly crap? Fine. I've enjoyed the hell out of both Flickr and del.icio.us and will miss them after the dirt-bags from Redmond take them over.

BTW, kind of seems like we were right about the Yahoo buy-out being a bad thing. If it wasn't for that, this would not be happening - now would it?

Microsoft can kiss my ass.

Re: Flickr Users Concerned About Possible Microsoft Takeover

Jeff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:44:27 -0000

I can't imagine a reason to expect anything but toxic changes to Flickr when Microsoft gets its hands on it. Microsoft has a pretty consistent track record-- it's not a sense of righteous indignation, just a sense of history. I'm bailing ASAP.

Re: Flickr Users Concerned About Possible Microsoft Takeover

Jeffrey — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:32:25 -0000

Dear Flickr users,

We appreciate that you fly your sense-of-entitlement flag and freak out every six months whenever you think that somebody's about to make toxic changes to Flickr. It's a powerful thing. But nobody at Microsoft has said word one about doing anything to Flickr yet, and even if it goes through, the Microsoft acquisition is at least a year away from being complete at this point.

Chill, dudes. Save your righteous indignation for when it's really righteous.