I received this video today from one of my contacts at Yahoo!'s Corporate Intelligence Agency! (CIA!) depicting a man who has made himself known to me only as "shpigler."
He claims to be offering invaluable advice on negotiating tactics with Microsoft. His demeanor suggests a confident individual who would directly or indirectly benefit from further Microsoft-Yahoo! negotiations, whether or not a merger, referred to as the "Big One," takes place. As this is the case, I must consider him to be a dubious source of objective information on the matter.
I shall advise CIA! to take the subject's information into consideration, but that they should be aware that this might only be a small piece of a much larger puzzle. In fact it is entirely possible that this is a setup, designed to lure Yahoo! into making some as yet unforeseen maneuver which would yield catastrophic results.
Yahoo!'s refusal to accept Microsoft's proposal invites a response which could easily be compared to the outcome in 1968 of Czechoslovakia's so-called Prague Spring.
If this is the case, perhaps the Google Counterintelligence Operation (Gcop) has heard something along those lines...
In any event, I will be watching out for this "shpigler."
