Inspirational Technology

This is a surprising thing to see, but Yahoo is saying they’re going to open source their new webmail application. That’s a huge curveball aimed directly at Google and seems like a great move. I imagine the complexity of their code base is pretty high, but having that code out there could be a huge boost to Yahoo’s platform especially coupled with the recent announcement of a distributed authentication system that allows you to use Yahoo IDs on other sites. This announcement opens a lot of questions, like exactly what are they releasing, under what license and so on, but it could also signal a good trend in the growing war for the “internet operating system”.