Comments on: Jerry's perfect. Jerry's our man. Jerry's gone.

Jerry Yang shepherded a colossal decline in Yahoo shareholder value (and may be hurting his open-source assets in the process).

[J. Blow]

Who cares about their open source efforts? Could you make a more ridiculous comment?They need to earn money not embark on any more "projects". Yahoo is drowning in unmanaged, irrelevant, profit-less projects, the last thing it needs is to worry about open source.

This is the type of thinking that got them in trouble in the first place. It isn't about the technology for Yahoo and hasn't been for a long time. It is only about monetizing eye balls which should be not only the top priority but the ONLY priority.

[Arnav]

I just wish YUI is not scrapped. It is one of the best completely free and open source Javascript library out there. It also has some of the best documentation of any open source javascript library. It's sad to see a good company go down at the hands of leadership which have no clue on where to go.

[odubtaig]

Of course, it could be that this is the best thing to happen to Yahoo! in years. The short term may look bleak but it wouldnt' be the first company to pull off a last minute miraculous recovery at the hands of a new CEO. I mean, what's that company, do computers, big on graphics, products starting with a little i... I forget. Whoever's at the top will always determine the attitude for the whole company which can be as bad as it is good but the change in direction can, and hopefully will, be drastic. Just so long as they don't get Darl McBride in.