[Am-info] Is AOL buying Red Hat like Sony buying into Hollywood?

[John J. Urbaniak]

Hans Reiser wrote:

> Mike Stephen wrote:
>
> >
> >I agree that this makes no sense for AOL.  If they actually want an operating system that will
> >compete with Windows, and they are thinking that if they spend a whack of dollars on a redhat
> >company, they would be much better off with FreeBSD as a starting point due to the less restrictive
> >license arrangements.
> >
>
> This is an incredibly marketing insensitve remark.  Linux has brand name
> value.  It is the only brand that can compete with MS.  FreeBSD is just
> hanging in there, and OS/2 is dead dead dead as a brand.
>

Some of us are trying our best, in spite of IBM, to keep OS/2 alive.  It is a superior Operating System.

John