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Call me paranoid, but I just get these visions of
this linux distribution that just shows up on in your mailbox unannounced, and
when you install it, everything is great, but then after the free 1000 hours,
starts dinging your credit card for $4.95 a month. And of course, Granny being
Granny doesn't have a clue, so it just keeps racking up the charges.
It
just seems like the whole ideological concepts between the two are 180 degrees
apart. It seems like trying to mix oil and water to me.
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I'm
not saying that I agree with AOL's desire to buy RedHat, but there are
three things that spring to mind.
First, RedHat would get an
infusion or resources, both human and financial.
Second, the RedHat
guys would get rich (hell don't we all dream of that
sometimes?!)
Third, I thought that there was a desire in the Linux
public to create a
distribution that could be used by everyone's
grandmother? Isn't that
partially what Redmond Linux (sorry don't have the
announcement to hand) is
trying to do?
Thanks
Mike
On
Saturday 19 January 2002 06:41 pm, Mark Petersen wrote:
> Oh, great! Why
not! They've screwed up just about everything else
> surrounding the
internet, and personal computers in general. I guess they
> may as well
do in the linux world too! I can just see the commercials on TV
>
now!
>
> <computer illiterate person on street>"Wow! AOL
Linux is so easy! We just
> love it! And all our friends use it too! We
can chat... send email... Even
> grandma uses it!"</computer
illiterate person on
> street>...<voiceover>"You've got
Linux!"</voiceover>
>
> I just hope Linus doesn't hang
himself from the chandelier over this one...
>
>
-Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
>
From: Lanny
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 5:02 PM
> Subject:
[rl-users] AOL Buying RedHat?
>
>
> This looks
strange
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5064-2002Jan18.html
It talks
> about AOL buying RedHat.
>
>
Lanny
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