Big companies may be slow, but some of them have significant startup-smooshing power. Presumably, the fear is that the MS-Yahoo conglomerate would attempt to sm

Big companies may be slow, but some of them have significant startup-smooshing power. Presumably, the fear is that the MS-Yahoo conglomerate would attempt to smoosh startups by, say, making everything Yahoo work only with things MS, and generally promoting lock-in and anti-open anti-internet-stuff. It might not work, but when such large objects are in play it seems reasonable to worry.