Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

[Gary <medmanks@earthlink.net>]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 06:23:45PM -0600 or thereabouts, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:32:09PM -0600, Gary wrote:
> > Having just migrated over from SuSE to RH, (and still munging and
> > tinkering), my timing is tantamount to buying Enron stock.  <g>
> 
> While this can't possibly be good news, I think everybody is getting a
> little carried away.  I'm sure that if this were to happen, it would
> either be a non-event, or a Red Hat-compatible distribution would be
> released by either former Red Hat people or one of the other
> distribution vendors.

Steve, I meant that more in the way of humor.. Perhaps it will give an
advantage to Mandrake through Mdk's growth, but I am not about to give
up on RH, as I have devoted too much time into it now, re-learning the
ways of this distro. I find it extremely stable, and have been able to
set up my work for daily use without really a hitch, i.e. WordPerfect
2000 and ViaVoice for Linux, SAMBA, and what seems like a 1000 other
things. I still have some permission issues that are different.  I think
we all have gone through companies that have been devoured by another,
or went BK, as L&H did. At the very least, it will be interesting as
time goes on, if it does go through. I just keep wondering why, what is
in it for AOL/Time-Warner?  What direction are they going to take? Sorry
for the speculation..<g>
 
> At worst, it would be a minor inconvenience.

Yah, now Tux will say, "You've got mail," and how do you want it
delivered and read, xmail, EXMH, MH, Mew, Mutt, Ismail, Sylpheed,
Polarbar?

-- 
Best regards,
Gary   

Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.


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