[thelist] AOL wants to buy RH Linux??

[Denis, David]

> the scary thing about aol and its looming power is they have 
> *no* regard for
> standards whatsoever.  people complain about microsoft, but 

I'm sure that you know Netscape, a division of AOL, produces the most
standards compliant browser available.
 
> another thing is that aol is a media company -- microsoft is not.

Sure it is, just look at MSNBC, MSN, and WebTV.  And they'd love to purchase
a major cable provider as well.

> microsoft's main focus since day 1 has been software 
> development.  when it
> comes to supporting products and pushing new releases, 
> patches, upgrades,
> whatever out the door, nobody knows more about that than 
> microsoft.  the

Well they have to be, with all the security updates they issue.

Dave