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

[Erick Andrews]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:05:32 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:

>John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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>> Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>Gene Gaines wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Geoffrey,
>>>>
>>>>Sorry.  My comment, on rereading, sounded rude.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>AOL doesn't even use their own browser.  Figure that one out.
>>>
>> 
>> 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.
>
>

Actually, I see some relation.  When I was at Digital, we *did*
use our own products internally.

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Erick Andrews