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

[Joe Moore]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:38:25PM -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:
> way budgets have been tightened there probably isn't enough of that 
> around to convince any of them to risk the wrath of Microsoft. Microsoft 
> can allow or disallow the sale of Windows, that means more than just a 
> cash bonus, it means the survival of companies. Microsoft has every 
> mainstream OEM by the throat, and it has for a better than 15 years. AOL 
> cannot change that with or without RedHat.

Well, not according to the DOJ's Seattlement.  Microsoft has "promised"
not to do bad things like that.  ("Not that we ever did threaten OEMs")

--Joe
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