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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.01.20 02:30 AM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>The only connection I can fathom is the internet appliance deal they were 
>doing Gateway. They were to be powered by Linux. The article suggests 
>that these products actually shipped, but I haven't heard a thing about 
>them since they were first shown as prototypes nearly two years ago.

     And its Linux based - so why can't AOL roll their own without 
spending millions to purchase RedHat? Is there some engineer or executive 
inside that company AOL can't live without ? (IE, the Palm buyout of Be 
for its brainpower instead of its intellectual property.) But I don't 
even see how they could benefit that way, since most of RedHat's people 
will quit and go to SuSE, Debian, Apple, or IBM as soon as they get their 
bonuses for the buyout. Just like most of the Netscape people did. I 
woudnt work in AOLTW's creativity-stifling environment under Levin, Case, 
Turner, et al. for anything less than $1,000,000 a year - and at the job 
I have now I'm only getting paid $6.15 an hour. I'm sure a majority of 
employees at RedHat feel the same way I do.



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