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Flickr Users Concerned About Possible Microsoft Takeover

posted by Scott Beale on Monday, February 4th, 2008

In response to Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition bid for Yahoo, many Flickr users are expressing concern for what might happen if Microsoft is successful. They have even created a Flickr Group to address this issue, Microsoft: Keep Your Evil Grubby Hands Off Of Our Flickr, complete with photo pool of MS/Flickr takeover images, including some that envision what a Flickr website re-design might look like with Microsoft at the controls.

image by Michael Seneschal

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this blog post was written by Scott Beale on Monday, February 4th, 2008

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Jeffrey 02/04/2008 06:32 PM 1 point
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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.

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Jeff 02/04/2008 08:44 PM 1 point
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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.

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Mark 02/05/2008 03:13 AM 1 point
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Not really that much difference between Yahoo and MS. I am amused by the attitude of Flickr users which echoes much of the attitude of the X and Y gens who think everything is free and belongs to them.

Oh and "unsolicited" is not synomous with "hostile".

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Dan Yesterday 01:30 AM 1 point
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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.

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