[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]Well, this is certainly nothing new, because high level Google execs have been singing the same tune for weeks now, but now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has joined the choir, saying that a Microsoft-Yahoo deal might hurt the very foundations of our beloved Internet.
"We would be concerned by any kind of acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft. We would hope that anything they did would be consistent with the openness of the Internet, but I doubt it would be. We are concerned that there are things Microsoft could do that would be bad for the Internet." says Schmidt.
It's obvious that Schmidt is talking to the experts here; such highly technical terms as "bad for the internet" can only be understood by the most tech-savvy folks. What he probably means is that yes, Microsoft does have a history of antitrust violations, and yes, they haven't exactly been the most open company in the history of IT. But Google's vehement opposition to this deal probably means that they don't see two tired giants merging in a desperate attempt to save what they can before Google takes an even larger part of the Internet cake (that's pretty much how I see it); they see something dangerous to their business. What exactly is it, only time will tell.