Re: [SLUG] AOL Looking to acqui

From: VT (vt1@gte.net)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 11:34:10 EST


At 09:05 PM 1/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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?

WinAmp and ICQ are examples of a companies that AOL acquired then 'mostly'
left alone.

VT



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