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

[Geoffrey]

John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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> Geoffrey wrote:
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>>Gene Gaines wrote:
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>>>Geoffrey,
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>>>Sorry.  My comment, on rereading, sounded rude.
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>>>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.
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>>AOL doesn't even use their own browser.  Figure that one out.
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> IBM doesn't use their own Operating System either.  Microsoft demanded that IBM
> standardize on Windows and IBM did just that.


Although that may well have some truth to it, it's unrelated to the this 
thread.


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