As news continues to trickle out about Microsoft’s potential buy-out of Yahoo, lots of speculation is being written about what will happen with Yahoo’s open source culture, as just one of many cultural differences between Microsoft and Yahoo. For instance, Yahoo is a big supporter of PHP and Rasmus Lerdorf (credited as being PHP’s inventor) works there. Yahoo is also probably the most famous company that uses FreeBSD (our open source OS of choice, also). But if Microsoft buys out Yahoo, what’s going to happen to that open source culture? Some people are speculating that it will give Microsoft a convenient excuse to start being more accepting of the open source phenomenon. Other predictions are more downbeat and gloomy. Only time will tell.