This expains Sunday's User Friendly comic strip... I thought it was funny, but I thought it seemed out of left field...
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020120 -----Original Message----- From: Bob Staaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat AOL/Time Warner buying Red Hat might be great for those who use Linux as a Desktop workstation but, anyone actually believe they care about competing in the server market? AOL is just looking for a way to get the AOL virus spread to the world without having to pay Microsoft. I for one will find another distribution or more than likely go with Sun/Solaris if Red Hat sells out. Bob Staaf Southern Web Services Orlando, Fl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernhard Rosenkraenzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 5:31 AM Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: > > If this were to happen... > > > 1) It WILL mean linux is more wide spread > > Which would be the good news about this deal. Certainly better than being > bought by Microsoft. > > > 4) Once a big company gets involved - will it mean the end of a lot > > of the smaller distributions (I don't think so - but ...) > > I don't think so, particularily because quite a few people who hate the > big company would run off to them. > > > 5) Time to buy RedHat shares? (damn I'm broke!!!) :-) > > Rather not, they'll go down as soon as someone reveals it isn't true. ;) > > > 6) Hopefully the GPL and Linus will keep them honest if it does happen > > Well, if the GPL and Linus don't, we would. > They don't have much of a use in buying Red Hat if all the engineers > leave, and I certainly won't work for anyone violating the GPL or > taking everything under the BSD license proprietary. > There's always Conectiva or Mandrake to run off to. > > LLaP > bero > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
