Yahoo! has become leakier than a sieve. Typically this is a sign of an unhappy place to work - which Yahoo! may or may not be, we hesitate to judge.
But two recent important leaks springing from the world's former favourite dotcom darling show different motives at play.
Last month, the WSJ published the incomprehensible Peanut Butter manifesto, penned by Yahoo! senior veep Brad Garlinghouse: this was "leaked" in the way that politicians leak stuff to pet journalists. Designed to prove that the company knows what it must do to fight Google, it proved definitively that Microsoft really should add a platitude-checker to MS-Word.
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