[Am-info] AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

[Geoffrey]

Gene Gaines wrote:

> Geoffrey,
> 
> You do not think M$sucks killed off Netscape.
> 
> You do not think?


And what do you think?


> 
> Gene
> gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
> 
> On Saturday, January 19, 2002, 5:27:27 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>Mitch Stone wrote:
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>>>--- From a message sent by John Bryan on 1/19/02 10:12 AM ---
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>>>>http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html
>>>>
>>>>By Alec Klein,
>>>>Washington Post Staff Writer
>>>>Saturday, January 19, 2002; 9:14 AM
>>>>
>>>>AOL Time Warner Inc. is in talks to buy Red Hat Inc., a prominent 
>>>>distributor of a computer operating system, an acquisition that would 
>>>>position the media giant to challenge arch rival Microsoft Corp., 
>>>>according to sources familiar with the matter.
>>>>
>>>>more...
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>>>>
>>>This development is really puzzling. What possible use could AOL-TW have 
>>>for Red Hat? About as much as they did for Netscape? Even less, I'd 
>>>think, since they don't get any unique technology from Red Hat.
>>>
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>>Possibly an attempt to kill off Red Hat as they virtually did to netscape.
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>>> Mitch Stone  
>>> mitch@accidentalexpert.com
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