I meant to say 35.6% of the shares in my previous posting. Pierre Smits
ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan are NOT two entirely separate entities. According > to financial information (see [1] of 2016 Yahoo! held/holds 25.6% of the > companies shares. In some areas that is enough to constitute directional > power. Maybe, in this case, there are enough Chinese walls between the two > entities to consider the two separate. We'll probably never know... > > Another aspect that might be more worrying is the recent deal between > Verizon and Yahoo! regarding the sale of the internet activities of Yahoo! > to Verizon. I wonder what the effect of this transaction will be on the > parties from Yahoo! intended to participate in this project. If the changes > mean that the parties now listed with Yahoo! won't be paid to do > development work on the product of the incubating project, this could mean > that the project loses more than half of initial contributor/committer base. > > > > [1] https://about.yahoo.co.jp/ir/en/holder/status.html > > Best regards, > > Pierre > > Pierre Smits > > ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> > OFBiz based solutions & services > > OFBiz Extensions Marketplace > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> >> > On Apr 27, 2017, at 11:41 AM, Bryan Call <bc...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > Having a lot of Yahoo employees on the Traffic Server Proposal back in >> 2009 >> > was also a concern. This is something we were able to easily overcome >> in >> > incubation. Building a healthy diverse community is one of the >> project's top >> > priorities. >> >> >> It’s worth pointing out that Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan are two entirely >> separate entities, so the project already has two large organizations >> backing the project, and a few others as well. I see no real issue here >> with diversity. >> >> Cheers, >> >> — Leif >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> >
