[thelist] AOL wants to buy RH Linux??
Keith
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Sat Jan 19 21:55:31 CST 2002
jeff
> 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?
>
Well, let's see... There's only one company that currently fits your
description, Microsoft. Why do you think Microsoft should be the
only one who can get away with "no competition where the
owner/distributor of the os also owns the browser". What's wrong
with Nokia, AOL, Toyota, and/or General Foods getting part of the
action? Or three gals from Tampa for that matter?
As for that article, did you notice anyone in the industry being
quoted? No, what's there is some moron reporter's fantacy on a
subject that's obviously over his little head. Imagine his scenario,
AOL forces 30 million currently paying customers to install Linux OR
quit using AOL. Right, like that's *really* gonna happen! AOL isn't
that dumb, by design AOL users have the lowest level of user
sophistication - so you force them to use an OS that requires one of
the highest levels of sophistication. Yeah, right!
What's more likely to happen, the same fate as Netscape. AOL will
chase off the talent at RedHat, take two years to produce their first
upgrade, an upgrade so broken even they will announce they have
no intention of fixing it. The bad news is that an acquisition by AOL
means RedHat's finished, if their handling of Netscape is any
indicator of how they'd waste RedHat too. It's a kiss of death for
RedHat as far as I can see.
keith
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