The future of internet

There is a highly interesting blog entry posted by David Drummond, Google Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer - Yahoo! and the future of the Internet. He said:

Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies -- and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.

I do think that if Microsoft does buy over Yahoo, the competition in the online world would be even more intensive and aggressive. There will be three very big players in the online world - Mircosoft, Google and the open source world. We have seen wonders in the open source community so far with traditional successful examples like linux, apache and mysql being so widely used by web servers nowadays. Online traffic for content is also moving towards user driven sites like Wikipedia and YouTube.

The people in the online world is extremely powerful and Microsoft or Google must appease the internet community as a whole. Internet is a free and open platform - no one can control it fully.