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

[Erick Andrews]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:43:48 -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:

>========== 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.

$6.15 and hour?  God bless you Paul.  That's not a living wage by my 
standard.

-- 
Erick Andrews