Stockholders are the weights which drag companies into the black hole of immoral dealings.
Companies always start by a small group of people with an idea, and an ideal. When stockholders step in, that ideal is lost and all that is left is the drive to make ever more important sums of money.
Sure, money is important, and yeah, normal people never have enough of it. But it is time that we all realize that making money is not the sole goal of life. How you make it is more important than how much you make.
But stockholders have no soul, so this kind of argument goes right over their heads.

I tried to read your comment, and made it nearly half way, before I realized I was wasting my life. I'm going to go fap, thats a much better use of my time.

Perhaps the folks at Yahoo were making decisions based on principles and morals rather than how much money it would make.

Any company that would sacrifice profit for ethics is alright in my book.

Although, it seems more like Yahoo has an intense hatred of Microsoft.

For those who dwell within the universe of rights & wrongs, it would be of benefit to realise that there are no linits to greed. None whatsoever… but fear. As such, if the fear [of exposure of some truth within the matter under consideration] is still in the pigeon hell-hole, greed will march on as if all is hunky-dory. And it will soon be forgotten as the achievement-ratchet locks-on another cog. When you are confined within an air-tight chamber with another soul and the oxygen supply is dwindling, where are the rights and wrongs? It’s merely what you can get out of the situation before the other dummy wakes up to the situation. That is truly hunky-dory but what if the chamber allows-in a limited supply of air? Will achievement take charge or will truth wills out. Makes you ‘fink ain’t it… 

These takeover nonsense [“but not when the whores and drugs are dangling, you pontificating nitwit ..”] are mere zero-sum games. At the end of it all, everyone who benefitted from the fracas will have to relinquish it ALL and it doesn’t matter if the heirs finally swallow the loot … Ali Baba will still have to account for what he had really lost… no, not to the wizened old man [and how would anyone know that it is not a woman? makes you ‘fink, ain’t it] with the white beard, but to himself as to why he’s having elevated blood pressure, blood sugar levels, etc. And science won’t solve it because science is for proving the existence of divinity and not to replace it. But how? Certainly not through more pontifications of rights & wrongs…. but how about stitting back and enjoying the sideshow and these actors are not charging a bean for their efforts.