[thelist] AOL wants to buy RH Linux??

Diego Martín Lafuente dlafuente at livra.com
Sat Jan 19 14:10:26 CST 2002


Anyone here remember the famous "More evil than satan"?

heh

----- Original Message -----
From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
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Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] AOL wants to buy RH Linux??


> chris,
>
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > From: CDitty
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> > http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
>
> all i've gotta say is that *anybody* that thinks microsoft is the worst
> there is should really take another look around, this time outside their
> current opinion pool.  to me, aol is far more evil.  to quote:
>
>   "The AOL online software, which consumers can
>    install for free from the Web or a compact disk,
>    is now designed to run on Microsoft's Windows
>    operating system. But the AOL software could be
>    configured to override Windows and launch a
>    version of Red Hat's Linux operating system,
>    sources said."
>
> to you linux zealots out there, the above is *not* a good thing, no matter
> how much it may seem like it at first.
>
>   "With such a move, AOL Time Warner could
>    potentially make significant inroads into
>    Microsoft's bread-and-butter business. An
>    even graver challenge to Microsoft would be
>    for AOL Time Warner to develop a rival
>    operating system that works exclusively with
>    the media giant's own Internet service
>    provider, its Web browser or proprietary
>    content."
>
> if this happens, you damn well better bet that microsoft will consider
linux
> an important operating system to support for their browser, office apps,
> etc.  in the meantime, wanna talk about a browser market with little to no
> competition where the owner/distributor of the os also owns the browser?
>
> sad, sad day if aol pulls this off.
>
> .jeff
>
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