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

[Hans Reiser]

Paul Rickard wrote:

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>
>      Overall, about the AOL RedHat deal, I'm quite skeptical. Everything 
>so far appears to just be rumors, and the deal makes absolutely no sense 
>- except for the aspect of Microsoft bribing/paying/agreeing with AOL 
>somehow to trade the elimination of a threat for some favor. That is the 
>absolute only way it could make any sense or be a realistic thing.
>

I decided that it is paranoid to think that Steve Case and Bill Gates 
cooked up some backroom deal in which he bought Netscape to slowly kill 
it.  The thought did occur to me at the time of the deal, but I think it 
didn't happen.  Occam's razor and all that.  It would have been 
deliciously evil for Gates to pull off though:-)....

Hans