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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. Why, It's free already? by cide1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isnt this the beauty of the GPL, AOL already has the full source to RedHat.

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  2. Re:The End of the MS Monopoly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    .. a Linux distro with an AOL client strapped on

    For some reason, that sounds . . . arousing.

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  3. Re:AOL buys *all* the cool stuff. by ekrout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except Slashdot. Are you trying to say Slashdot isn't cool? Are you? Huh?! Huh?!!!

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  4. OK, I've thought some more... by chip_s_ahoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alan Cox works for AOL?...Dude! You've got patches!

  5. Redefining 'Dumb Terminal' by long_john_stewart_mi · · Score: 5, Funny
    "... a rival operating system that works exclusively with the media giant's own Internet service provider, its Web browser or proprietary content."
    Now that's what I call a dumb terminal. =)
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  6. Tech Support by istartedi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Customer: I can't connect.

    Tech: What's your operating system?

    Customer: AOL.

    Tech: (trying not to laugh) No sir, that's your browser. I need to know what comes up when you turn on your computer.

    Customer: I told you. AOL.

    Tech: Maybe AOL is in your startup folder. What comes up before AOL?

    Customer: It's the first thing that comes up.

    Manager: Can you put the customer on hold?

    Tech: Can you hold please?

    Customer: OK.

    Tech: Sorry this is taking so long. I've got a real idiot. Thinks his OS is AOL.

    Manager: Didn't you get the memo?

    Tech: What memo?

    Tech 2: Hey did you see that guy go postal in cubicle 6?

    Tech 3: No. By the way, there's some kind of memo. Have you read it?

    Tech 2: Nah. I was gonna wait until break...

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  7. Stallman?! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Richard Stallman will go on a shooting rampage when he hears about this:

    It's not GNU/Linux anymore! It's AOL /Linux!

  8. I can see it now by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) Red hat AOL user (aka RHAOL...pronounced RAH-OOL) fires up the AOL security check and hears "you got owned".

    2) Just when you think it can't get any worse, they place ads on TV with Scooby Doo as the spokes 'toon saying "Red Rat Ray-roh-rel rits rumber run!'

    3) The Red hat on the Redhat symbol gets down to the "chin level" to hide its shame.

    4) A vulnerability in sendmail allows a script kiddie to parse all the email from AOL thru the "borkinator" script (inserts Swedish Chef comments into text)...oddly enough, no one notices for 2 years even when calling tech support and "this is (insert name of tech) how may I BORK! BORK! BORK! Help you".

    5) World-wide several BSD and Slackware users are hospitalized for asphixiation from laughing so hard they could not breath for several minutes.

    Just a few thoughts.

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