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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.01.21 09:55 AM, Joe Moore typed: ============

>On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:41:33PM -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:
>>     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.
>
>Oops, it looks like you misspelled "sold" there...
>
>Or did you mean "outsourced"?

    Same difference. Eventually the people who run IBM are going to 
discover how much cash they lose on that unit, outsourced or not, and 
mercifully put it out of its misery. Only thing there worth keeping is 
the ThinkBook.



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