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One has to wonder if Yahoo Execs pushed Chinese Officials into making some noise on this. One also has to wonder why China's affect on this potential merger was not brought up in the original story of the Buyout offer, since the change to China's law was made over a year ago and set to take effect in August.

Yahoo has also been doing a whole lot more with the Open Source Community and Licensing since the buyout offer, which would seem to point to the possibility of the yahoo execs doing everything they can to head this off. Personally, I hope they do. I don't particularly care for the invasiveness of Yahoo's tools, but at least the corporate culture is a whole lot more open than Microsoft's.

One also has to wonder how many more Chairs Ballmer has Hurled since this announcement, since he was paraphrased as saying he won't take no for an answer . . .

Hmm, has anyone compared the timing of Microsoft's previous offer for Yahoo with the timing of the passing of this law in China????

If nothing else, the battle has been entertaining.