Re[2]: [Am-info] AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

[Gene Gaines]

Geoffrey,

Sorry.  My comment, on rereading, sounded rude.

I only intended to ask what you thought.

Microsoft "cut off their air supply."  The big, crude,
dishonest bully attempting to intimidate, and if that
doesn't work, just apply illegal monopoly pressure to
kill the good people standing in their way.

Do you remember that AOL attempted to save the pieces?

Now you criticise them?

Where am I wrong?

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, 6:55:42 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>> 
>>>>--- 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...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>> 
>> 
>>>Possibly an attempt to kill off Red Hat as they virtually did to netscape.
>>>
>> 
>> 
>>>> Mitch Stone  
>>>> mitch@accidentalexpert.com
>>>>
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