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AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat?

Posted by michael on from the drm-coming-to-rpm dept.

bstadil sent in this rumor. The Washington Post isn't exactly a rumor site, so there's probably truth behind it. Wow. It would make a great deal of sense for AOL/Time-Warner to acquire an operating system for leverage against Microsoft - same reason they bought Netscape.

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  1. Good and Bad. by thesolo · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    This is great and awful news at the same time.

    While AOL could provide a huge shot in the arm to Linux (it wont make a huge jump to the desktop without being able to run AOL, sad but true), what geek wants to run an AOL OS?? Would AOL/TW put their icons everywhere, or try to include DRM in it?? AOL/TW isn't much better than MS after all, they cater to the lowest common denominator.

    Oh well, if they do, I'll just go to another distro, I suppose.