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

[John Poltorak]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:31:19AM -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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> Hans Reiser wrote:
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> > Mike Stephen wrote:
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> > >
> > >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.
> >
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> Some of us are trying our best, in spite of IBM, to keep OS/2 alive.  It is a superior Operating System.

IBM is, in spite of everything said, keeping OS/2 chugging along. The most 
recent release of OS/2 is actually newer than Windows XP.

I expect that very few people realise that. 
 
> John


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John