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

[John J. Urbaniak]

Geoffrey wrote:

> 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.

IBM doesn't use their own Operating System either.  Microsoft demanded that IBM
standardize on Windows and IBM did just that.

John