[ale] AOL in talks to buy RedHat!!!

[Geoffrey]

Robert Heaven wrote:

> As in any war, there will be casualties and sacrafices must be made. Is 
> it too much to ask to sacrafice RedHat in order to gain 20-to-30 million 
> new Linux users? Now all we need is for Intuit to get a clue and get on 
> board and we can gain another 50 million.


You're kidding right?  How many AOL users do you think are going to use 
Linux?  How many of them know nothing but Windows and use all kinds of 
windows software.  How long do you think it will take AOL to produce a 
version of Linux that runs these software packages?

I don't know what AOL wants with Red Hat, but it's not to put AOL users 
on it...


> 
> linux-clusters at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
>> According to a the lead article reference on LinuxToday.com right now AOL
>> is in talks to buy RedHat!
>>
>> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-19-002-20-NW-RH
>>
> 
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