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