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Recent news say, Microsoft has bid $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo in a combination of cash and stock.

This is quite a lot of money to say the least, but what would it mean for the market?

I really like Yahoo for their openness, and much dislike Microsoft for their closed nature. However, Microsoft have started to get a lot better these later years. Will this be their best move towards openness so far? If they keep Yahoo's current strategy I think it is. But if they close it up, it will be very bad for the community.

Yahoo's strategy seems to be: "If we provide good packages for free, cool stuff will happen". This is very similar to google's strategy, but it seems that Yahoo doesn't have the cash flow to keep up with Google when buying cool ideas. Yahoo-Microsoft probably will if they work more towards openness and free.

What do you think?

YUIBlog at Yahoo have a nice video on Joseph Smarr from Plaxo talking about javascript best practices. I have been saying for a long time that it is not always good to code javascript in a strictly OO fashion, but instead use namespaces for protection. In some places it is good, but the mindset with javascript should be that "How can I solve this with the fewest lines of code" and not "How can I solve this the most 'beautiful' way".

Don't get me wrong, I really like beautiful solutions, but just not when they are done with 100 lines of code to be OO, when it could be done with 10 lines.

Joseph Smarr has some other good points where he argues in a similar fashion as Yoda, "You must unlearn what you have learned", meaning that regular coding best practices sometimes does not apply to javascript.

//Anders