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WTF? AOL in negotiations to buy Red Hat

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Interesting.... But doesn't affect me directly. I run Debian, and I'm currently thinking about switching to Gentoo 🙂.

I think this is the year when Linux start to really gain momentum in the desktops. Already Korea is switching 120.000 government desktops to Linux. Several governments in Europe are thinking about it too.

If AOL buys RH, RH might become the "Joe Sixpack"-version of Linux. But nobody is forcing you to use it.
 


<< AOL bought NETSCAPE and it went down the tubes. If this every goes through you can kiss Red Hat's OS goodbye! >>



LOL! I was going to post the same thing. The Mozilla project is a joke.
 


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<< AOL bought NETSCAPE and it went down the tubes. If this every goes through you can kiss Red Hat's OS goodbye! >>



LOL! I was going to post the same thing. The Mozilla project is a joke. >>



Negative on that one. It took them time to get off the ground because they re-wrote the entire application from scratch. The recent builds have been VERY good!
 


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<< AOL bought NETSCAPE and it went down the tubes. If this every goes through you can kiss Red Hat's OS goodbye! >>



LOL! I was going to post the same thing. The Mozilla project is a joke. >>



I ENTIRELY disagree. Mozilla is leaps and bounds better than netscape ever was.

<edit>Oops, i didn't mean to turn this into another browser argument. don't take it that way.</edit>
 
Why would AOL buy red hat..... Linux is open source...... Why don't they make there own:

AOLinux as stable as Enron Stocks

 


<< Why would AOL buy red hat..... Linux is open source...... Why don't they make there own:

AOLinux as stable as Enron Stocks >>



lol! 😛 😀
 


<< AOL in negotiations to buy Red Hat >>



We'll know the apocalypse is upon us when they buy Apple, and we have AOLinux running on an iMac. Now there's a vision of the anti-christ for you :Q
 


<< We'll know the apocalypse is upon us when they buy Apple, and we have AOLinux running on an iMac. Now there's a vision of the anti-christ for you >>

lol 😀
 
Wow.. the commentary here in these forums on this subject are worse than the ones seen at Slashdot. Congratulations, guys.
 


<< dont worry, they arent allowed to make it cost money or compete with MS >>



Where do people get this crap? I suppose Red Hat's revenue was one of the wishes they were granted by the genie when they picked up that bottle on the beach?



<< just wait until Microsoft buys AOL. >>

I'm sure they've tried. >>



They did indeed try early on. The buyout discussions nearly fractured the AOL board because, at the time, the company was struggling and Microsoft was dangling a nice chunk of change. It was Steve Case who fought the hardest to keep the company from being acquired.

Russ, NCNE
 


<< Wow.. the commentary here in these forums on this subject are worse than the ones seen at Slashdot. Congratulations, guys. >>




Oh please, I think the commentary on this proposal has been quite restrained !! This is the stuff of nightmares !!
 
Red Hat's revenue is based on support packages or boxed software.... Linux is free and it is free to download per GNU
 
if AOL allows Red Hat to be seperate but still own them, this is great news because it will get out the word about Linux and more companies will make software for it, making it a more viable option to most users over XP. (See I own shares in MSFT and AOL so it doesn't matter to me 😀)
 


<< Red Hat's revenue is based on support packages or boxed software.... Linux is free and it is free to download per GNU >>



Well, yes and no. Linux itself is free, but you can bundle it with proprietary software which can not be distributed freely.
 


<< Oh please, I think the commentary on this proposal has been quite restrained !! This is the stuff of nightmares !! >>

No, I stand by my original comment. The speculation here demonstrates a lack of insight and understanding -- mostly knee-jerk reactions along the lines of "AOL+Red Hat == AOL branded Linux", which doesn't make sense or follow what AOL has done in the past with acquisitions when you think about it.

edit: note that I still don't want this to happen, but for other reasons.
 
If the Microsoft hates dislike Microsoft then I can't wait to see how much they hate the would be AOL-Redhat.
 


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<< AOL in negotiations to buy Red Hat >>

We'll know the apocalypse is upon us when they buy Apple, and we have AOLinux running on an iMac. Now there's a vision of the anti-christ for you :Q >>



OMG!!! AIEEEEEE!!! NO!OOO!OOOO!
 


<< Negative on that one. It took them time to get off the ground because they re-wrote the entire application from scratch. The recent builds have been VERY good! >>



You're giving AOL/Netscape too much credit on the amount of time that it took on the code rewrite. Netscape already had a beta of the "Gecko" page rendering engine up and running BEFORE they were bought by AOL. Right after the merger occured, a bunch of the Netscape engineers fled the company, which added further delays to the project. The Silicon valley job market was hot back in 1998, and many startups offered those programmers better pay AND more exciting work to entice them to leave.

I believe that the loss of these programmers is one of the key reasons that Netscape open-sourced their 5.0 code as Mozilla. After all of their best talent fled the company, they didn't have enough in-house staff to release a product competivive to IE anymore.

Of course, If I posted this on Slashdot, the Mozilla developers would moderate me down to "-1 Flamebait" in no time. Gawd, their moderation system sucks.


 
haaahahahahahahha rival M$? hauhuaauauauauhauh all your OSes are belong to them!

im sure M$ wil like that cuz now they can say the have "competition", y do you think MAC is still on this planet?
 
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