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If you think that the proposed Microsoft and Yahoo Merger isn’t all that good for the Internet Community as a whole. If you think Yahoo would rather live than die at the hands of Microsoft please sign the petition.

I’ve already outlined just about all the reasons why this acquisition isn’t a good idea in my previous post What Does A Combined Microsoft Yahoo Look Like. Please read it and consider signing the petition. The power is in the hands of us bloggers who could get the attention of mainstream media, and make the regulators rethink, and try and stop this deal from going through.

Forget all the crap that Steve Ballmer said in his press release, incase Microsoft does go ahead with the deal, it gets nothing out of it. There is no way it can defeat Google by acquiring Yahoo, and it means that we see the end of Yahoo, one of most longstanding Internet companies out there.

Please sign the petition over here

Update : I have an online Petition running, to prevent Yahoo from going into Microsoft’s hands. If you don’t want Yahoo to die at the hands of Microsoft please sign the petition

Hot on the heels of the $44.6 Billion Offer made by Microsoft to Buy Yahoo, the web is going crazy with discussions on this. This deal if takes place, could well be the defining moment of Internet in 2008. This deal has large ramifications, beyond just about you and me can think of.

I’m not entirely sure, if this deal makes sense for Microsoft. The only reason Microsoft seems to be running behind Yahoo is to beat Google in Search and Online Advertising. The Bid seems to be a good deal for Yahoo, since the company has virtually been struggling for the past four years and 62% premium on the current value seems to be a good deal for the shareholders.

But it raises some obvious questions. Every Acquisition has always had one side loosing itself. Take for example Google’s recent acquisitions. Dodgeball, Jaiku, Measure Map etc.. All these companies had to suffer the wrath of Google. But take Youtube, it was a competitor to Google Video at the time it was purchased, and Google had to take some tough decisions on what it should do with Google Video. Now we see Youtube and Google Video coexisting happily without interfering with each other.

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