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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.01.19 01:30 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>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.

    Doesn't make any sense to me, either. Unless RedHat is doing 
something I haven't heard of. Why spend that kind of money to bury it in 
the same place they buried Netscape and ICQ? Unless that is one of 
Microsoft's demands in some kind of contract, which is what rumors said 
was AOL's real reason for buying Netscape. But the AOL icon is gone from 
XP anyway, so that wouldn't fit in this case.



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