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

[Geoffrey]

Gene Gaines wrote:

> 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?


And what have they done with the pieces?  Virtually nothing.  Netscape 6 
is based on the Mozilla effort, which to my knowledge, received no 
funding from AOL.

AOL doesn't even use their own browser.  Figure that one out.


> 
> Now you criticise them?


Yes I criticize them as they are just a Microsoft want to be.  I don't 
trust them anymore than I trust Microsoft.


> 
> Where am I wrong?
> 
> Gene
> gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
> 
> On Saturday, January 19, 2002, 6:55:42 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
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> 
>>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...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>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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