[TriLUG] AOL Redhat Linux?!?

[Mark]

How true is this rumor? Nothing I have read so far has pointed to any 
truth - RH says "no-comment" which leads me to believe that something is 
going on though. I have mixed feelings about this - Someone to compete 
head to head with Microsoft is a good thing... but I agre that 
historically companies that buy good engineering companies end up 
killing them and the best products ( DEC - rip! :-(  ---- I liked VMS 
and TOPS-10 and TOPS-20) :-O - guess I am dating myself.......)

Somehow an AOL desktop on linux is a scary thing!  

Mark


Paul D. Boyle wrote:

>Brent Verner wrote:
>
>>[2002-01-19 02:24] Greg Brown said:
>>
>>| Red Hat, if you are listening, DON'T SELL!!!  At least not to these people.  
>>
>>have you lost your mind?  :-) I can't imagine a more positive scenario 
>>than having *nix users (even if the users don't know dick about *nix) 
>>on 30 million machines.  What could be negative about this?
>>
>
>I have to disagree with you.  When a mass consumer firm buys an
>engineering firm, I think, the result hasn't been good.  Think Compaq
>buying Digital -- a perfectly good engineering firm got wasted
>in the process.  No more Alpha processor -- I know at least one
>theoretical/computational chemist who is none too pleased with that.
>
>Personally, I am moving toward using SuSE more, so while I would hate
>to see RH go down the tubes (especially being a local company), it would
>affect me less than hardcore RH fans.
>
>
>Paul
>
>

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