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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.01.20 10:26 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

> IBM seems to be getting away with 
>offering Linux in high profile fashion while also selling Windows boxes. 
>If the OEMs get hit with a full-on broadside from AOL-TW bearing Red Hat 
>Linux, I think they'd be hard pressed to say sorry, no, we just can't do 
>that.

    Like I said before, IBM is a lot of separate companies with the same 
name. The division selling Linux doesn't care what happens to the PC 
division, and Microsoft knows it. IBM's PC unit is already doomed anyway, 
partially due to the higher rates Microsoft already charges it for 
Windows licenses.



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