[ic] Re: AOL in negotiation to buy Red Hat

[David xxxxxxx]

I can see it now.  Ad's automatically inserted into the motd.... Shoot,
I wouldn't put it past them as to modify apache to rotate ad's sort of
like Geocities does... Argh...

:o(




-----Original Message-----
From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
[mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com] On Behalf Of
Jeff Fearn
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 5:00 PM
To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ic] Re: AOL in negotiation to buy Red Hat 


> >Eeek!
> >
> >JT
> >
>
> What Eeek ?
>
> I read this: http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html.
>
> I don't understand if that is a good thing or a bad thing. What 
> happens to the stocks from RedHat if they are bought out ? Unless
they
> don't pay the whole RedHat IC team double the salary they get right 
> now,
AOL
> should go to ... :-)
>
> Can anybody tell an Enroe challenged person, if that means trouble,
success
> or nothing at all ?

Well it could either mean an interference in the free software provided
by RedHat, or it could mean a lot of extra cash injected in to freeware
products. It depends on how AOL approach it. AOL pushing Linux would be
a huge plus, especially if the help with some core development, and just
add on some AOL specific features for their users.

Jeff.

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