Ways to save Yahoo?

[ztirffritz]

I'm trying to think of escape routes for Yahoo and I'm not have much luck. The only thing that keeps bouncing around in my head is, what would happen if people just started buying Yahoo stock to drive the price up so that the MS deal didn't look so good? I realize it would never happen, but what would shareholders do? Are the shareholders so bent on returns on their investment that they would kill Yahoo for it? In a world where WalMart is still allowed to exist and Cigarettes are still legal, it doesn't surprise me that people still haven't figured out that MS is EVIL and nothing short of an EU beatdown is going to change their ways. They've already bought the US government, so the Justice Dept. justs slaps their wrist every few years and fines them $3-$6 million dollars. Bill has that in his couch between the cushions probably. I just hope that if the deal goes through, they sell of Zimbra first, preferably to Google. Microsoft will KILL that whole project before the ink dries on the title to Yahoo's corporate deed.

**edit** I should point out that I don't own any Yahoo, MS, or Google stock. I just don't like the idea of MS gaining ANY advantage until Google/Apple smacks them down a few notches.