Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner?

[Victor Tsaran]

Two hands in favor of the statement below.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner?


> That's what makes competition so important.  If AOL buys up Red Hat and
> ruins it like they do everything else, Just go to a different distro!
> While doing this, those who enjoy using Red Hat's environment should then
> write to AOL and tell them how they are switching to a different product.
>
> I for one, never use anything with AOL in it! I don't like their
> proprietary stance on so many things and how they fuck up every computer
> their software touches.  Case in point, just look at any computer that has
> the AOL internet explorer and other components on it.  I've talked to
> numerous people who installed AOL and how much trouble they had with their
> systems and how they couldn't get all the stuff out when trying to remove
> AOL.  IF Red Hat goes down that path, I wouldn't go near it with a ten
> foot pole!
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:
>
> >          I wish I could be as optimistic.  Actually, we will have to
demand
> > that they keep the command line text runtime or they will simply do the
> > migration thing where the GUI is updated and the text is
> > forgotten.  Witness the disappearance of DOS.
> >
> > -- Charlie.
> >
> > >Linux already comes with a GUI, but it can safely be ignored.
> > >
> > >On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, David Poehlman wrote:
> > >
> > > > but of course, it won't be accessible because they'll slap a gui on
it
> > > > and lock it in.
> > > >
> > > >
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