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

[Geoffrey]

Mike Stephen wrote:

  
> However if someone could get a whisper in Steves ear, perhaps AOL could license OS/2 from IBM, 
> put 50-100 milllion into fixing it up and adding all the newest geegaws, and getting a nice developers 
> package together. They actually could dent the Microsoft monopoly


Absolutely.  It makes you think AOL is just listening to all the Linux 
hype rather than making an intelligent technical decision.  Certainly 
OS/2 would be much easier to adapt to running existing Windows software 
than Linux?

The whole thing just reinforces my belief that AOL has little technical 
expertise on their staff.

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