I think that the AOL interest in a non-Microsoft system is a good thing. It could do more to keep or promote real standards than anything that we can expect from the government. The DOJ absolution provided to Microsoft in the "settlement" proposed in the antitrust case has made that very clear. This is NOT because I like AOL. I dropped them quite a while ago because of their "Microsoft mentality" that they had to control everything.
As others have pointed out, there will still be major players keeping Linux from becoming an AOL operating system, and the Linux connection would give AOL incentive to keep standards standard. I think that AOL will not be able to overrun Red Hat Linux as they have other software vendors because Linux is not a single company product. On another note. I would really appreciate it if posts to this list were kept to inline messages rather than posted as attachments. The attachments that are not formatted require that I cut and paste them to a word processor to get the lines word wrapped. > > > > I wanted to know what other BRLUGers thought about the talks between AOL and > > Red Hat. Good thing? Bad thing? What if AOL put funds into making a distro > > that users installed instead of M$? > > > > http://news.com.com/2100-1001-819243.html > > > > John Hebert > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
