Re: [Nolug] AOL in Negotiations to Acquire Red Hat

At 10:53 AM 1/19/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:52:31 -0600 Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net> wrote:
> > At 10:28 AM 1/19/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> > >This is bad....
> > >
> > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5064-2002Jan18.html
> >
> > I'm not sure if this would be a bad thing. In fact, it may very well be an
> > excellent way to push Linux.
>
>But why do they have to BUY RH to get at RH Linux? Mandrake didn't.

Again, to get a head start. Red Hat already has a very large talent pool,
existing contracts, goodwill, and is very much a trademark in the Linux
market. Oh, by the way, AOL will also get Red Hat Linux as an added benefit.

Regards, Dustin

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Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net>
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