[geeks] Ok I am ready to kill this Fu**ing linux box

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:21:22PM -0400, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> on 5/24/02 4:02 PM, Rick Hamell at hamellr at heorot.1nova.com wrote:
> 
> >>> So, you don't use google?  Yahoo?  Hotmail? slashdot?  Pick any one of those
> >>> sites and you are using freebsd.
> >> 
> >> I thought Google was all linux?
> > 
> > Google is a subsidary of Yahoo. :) Very much all FreeBSD.
> 
> Well that just stinks. If they are a minion of the evil that is Yahoo then I
> will have to change search engines. *sigh*

Don't believe everything you hear if believing it has unpleasant side 
effects, like having to use an inferior site.

Note:
1) The Google history page[1], makes no mention of being bought by Yahoo!.
   It does mention that the google founders were encouraged to make a company
   out of their project.  Later it mentions that yahoo!, among others, is
   now using google for their sites search services.

2) For funding[2], the list Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, as well as
   Stanford, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Ram Shriram, but say nothing about
   Yahoo!. It is interesting to note that they have a neurosurgeon on staff.

3) Under culture[3] it says, "Most Googlers have high powered Linux OS 
   workstations on their desktops."   This indicates that they aren't ALL
   freebsd.

4) Netcraft indicates they are using linux[4].

5) Finally, I just can't find any place[5-8] that claims that Yahoo owns
   google, although based on point 1, it isn't surprising that yahoo has a
   small stake in google.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd

[1] http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline.html
[2] http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html
[3] http://www.google.com/corporate/culture.html
[4] http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=on&mode_w=on&site=google.com
[5] http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=yahoo+buys+google&pg=q&avkw=tgz&kl=XX
[6] http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=yahoo+owns+google&pg=q&avkw=tgz&kl=XX
[7] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&q=yahoo+buys+google
[8] http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum6/919.htm