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Microsoft/Yahoo: A Bad Deal For Silicon Valley: Take II

Posted on February 05, 2008

Marc Andreessen has posted a very thoughtful rebuttal to my argument (as well as Fred's and few others) that the Microsoft/Yahoo deal is a potentially a bad thing for Silicon Valley. The funny thing is that I actually hadn't noticed the post yet in my feeds but it was brought to my attention by a number of people who were basically like Oooo, you've been served! and were wondering if I was going to challenge Marc to some kind of blog-off or something.I hate to disappoint folks, but after reading Marc's post I actually agree with most of what he has to say, especially his overarching messag...

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