This might not have even come from Ross, but from someone near Ross who's chatty. This is the plan in brief: Short term: Quiet the Thompson noise, talk to Facebook about patents, talk to Microsoft about search, and stay close to Third Point's Dan Loeb. Medium term: Be the world's premier digital media company, figure out what to do with its ad technology, sell its stake in Yahoo! Japan. Long term: Make Yahoo! relevant by getting into mobile, double down on Finance and Sports, more original video for premium ads, and do acquisitions. Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn's ( LNKD ) CEO and a former Yahoo! exec, tweeted after he read the strategy: "One of best articles on Yahoo's strategy I've read in a long time." Is it perfect and did Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson capture it 100% accurately? Probably not. But you get the gist, and it's completely in line with Ross' comments that he's made over at least the past year, so it certainly sounds credible. I disagree with Om that this plan was leaked to appease investors.