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Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by tacostakohashi on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:36AM (#11829927)
It already works the way the oil industry wants - free, and no annoying sales people, contracts, authentication issues to deal with.

A buyer that tried to "sell it to them as an industry specific chat service" would destroy it in the process.

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Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by prof_hobart on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:44AM (#11829970)
If no-one is prepared to pay for it, it's probably going to get destroyed at some point anyway.

If something is absolutely critical to the running of your business, then at some point you need to at least consider paying for it.

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Re:Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive by toyg on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:08AM (#11830081)
What it needs is probably a no-profit consortium dedicated to maintenance, with small fees. Industry members could then be peer-pressured into compliance. It would become a badge of honour, marketing expense etc etc.
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