La Voz De La Revoluccion

Looking at the behavior of Yahoo!, one can only surmise that someone in company headquarters is wanting to get back at the company for some (real or imagined) slight. First, they took the second-best search engine and agreed to throw it away. They aren't doing so well with their plan of reassuring searchers that their current engine's content is good enough, while still justifying the company's upcoming  dependence upon Microsoft's "Bing" search engine for results.

Then, we read that Yahoo is disposing of its offerings. Things like GeoCities (which was like Angelfire or Tripod with bigger traffic, until Y! stopped improving or promoting it), Zimbra (the primary open source competition for Microsoft's Exchange communications server), and Yahoo! Shopping (and the corresponding API that allowed access without going through the site). It is almost as if someone near the top of Yahoo! decided that they could no longer compete successfully, so they are giving up.

Sad, really. Yahoo has long been a user and supporter of open technologies such as FreeBSD, Linux, PHP, and Perl. It is sad when corporate mind rot afflicts such a company. I'd really like to see them recover the "we can do anything" attitude they had several years ago (not the "we're superior to you" attitude that the Y! workers had when I worked downstairs from them in 2004-2006).

Will someone come in and reawaken the Y! spirit? Or will they join a long list of formerly great companies in the dumpster?