RedHat is one huge developer with amazing amount of talent.
As long as AOL let RH be RH it would be a great future for RH and Linux in
general. I'm not sure what the past statistics of AOL's "assimilation's" are.
I think that's where I'd look first. Do they always change a copany that is
successful, or do they only change those who need it?
On Saturday 19 January 2002 07:06 pm, you wrote:
> Correct URL of Article:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5064-2002Jan18.html
>
> I seem to be missing a few points in relation to AOL purchasing RH.
>
> 1. What is AOL going to buy? Linux and almost all associated programs are
> under some form of public user license. RH major contribution is program
> verification and packaging by a nifty installer program.
>
> 2. I thought IBM was the major corporate owner of RH. What do they think
> about this? Wouldn't that screw them up with their software?
>
> 3. As far as I understand RH principal asset is it integrity. How long do
> they think that will last if all RH Linux users are required to report to
> AOL Central by secret code like Netscape users are? Don't believe that then
> where does that news report come from on Netscape's email window?
>
> 4. How long do they think it would take almost all RH users to say "Good by
> RH" and "Hello SuSE or Mandrake"? I seem to recall a major split in GUI
> because KDE uses Qt which is not public domain.
>
> What would make a lot of sense to both parties would be for AOL to give RH
> software away and provide technical support for its installation. After all
> you can down load RH for free and RH does make its money by providing
> service to corporate customers. This concept would expand RH user base and
> slowly move AOL onto another platform.
>
> Frank
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