Why would Yahoo censor open source answers?

C'mon Yahoo, you want answers, don't censor.





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Yahoo Censoring Open Source


Wed, 25/04/2007 - 2:58am — Homer





According to avid Yahoo'er, Amanda Kerik, Yahoo seems to have developed a policy of censoring answers in their "Yahoo! Answers" service, if that answer contains a suggestion to use Open Source alternatives to Microsoft software.





The gist of it is, that a fellow Yahoo'er posted a question about what to do with a PC that had run into unsolvable Windows problems, since that user did not have a Windows install disc. Amanda suggested, quite amiably, that the hapless user should simply install Ubuntu Linux, since it looked like they'd need to start over from scratch anyway. Amanda was subsequently rewarded with a warning from Yahoo that her answer was "in violation of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.", and they promptly deleted her answer.

Why would Yahoo censor open source answers?
I wasn't aware of this. OK, so what's the question?
Reply:If this is true then is has been a recent change as I have seen many answers suggesting that open source software be used and I have suggested it in some of my answers.


If they are censoring then they aren't doing a very good job of it as there are still lots of answers recommending open source software.
Reply:If they are censoring your question is a better target for censoring than foss.


Being a publicly held company they simply cannot afford to this.