AOL To Finally Switch To Mozilla?

pitabutter writes "Sounds like AOL is joining the list of companies making the internal switch to Linux, taking their default browser choice along with them. Oddly, second article in a short time linking AOL and Red Hat. " As with all things with AOL/Mozilla, I'll actually believe it when the darn thing ships - but the internal switch to Linux is something that I've also heard from people.

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Does that mean...

[codexus]

that I'll be using the same browser that AOLers use. I'll be too ashamed and switch to Konqueror :)

Th new desktop!

[jackb_guppy]

We have GNOME and KDE.

Now we will have AOL!

That right AOL.

At one point Netscape was quoted to say, "They were the next desktop". Other than office tools (StarOffice?), AOL has most of the needs in place. They have user base. Now with AOL Anywhere, a little java... They are a virual desktop on all platforms.

The OS today, is nothing more than the MACRO KERNEL of tomorrow.

Re:A step...

[bfree]

How long until MS uses Gecko? I think that will be sometime after:

1. They are split apart
2. They adopt Free Software and Open Standards across the board
3. 95%+ of websites will ONLY render with the mozilla engine
4. RMS is appointed General/Technical/Absolute Manager
5. MS buys AOL
6. Hell freezes over

Seriously it will take a massive shift in MS for this to happen and it would probably be one of the least significant things which would appear from such a transition (I imagine a GPL WordViewer would be about top of the list and the biggest thing we could see). MS detests free software (or open software or anything that might prevent their control) and would pay a massive price rather than lose control of the internet browsing experiences of the web. I would actually expect it to be far more likely that MS will become more aggressive in locking out other browsers than IE wherever possible (think IIS, Frontpage and all the MS controlled sites). Hell they conned Tony "The Stooge" Blair into handing over large wadges of cash for the new government public internet portal which is completly IE dependant! Ah well let the battle commense again.

new slogan

[monkey_jam]

Americans On Linux

substitute Assholes for americans where you see fit..

Re:Well they could contribute to the redhat commun

[Anonymous Coward]

"it would have to be a really old, or special compressed distro as redhat takes 2 full cd's now. "

That's funny, my copy of Windows XP somehow managed to include everything on one CD. Perhaps Windows isn't as bloated as the Linux community makes it out to be.

Re:Doesn't this say it all?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, I'm running AOL OS right now, right?
It's what pops up after I turn on this
E-Machine! It's version 7.0, their latest
OS, I think.

Re:Well they could contribute to the redhat commun

[Anonymous Coward]

Your Windows XP CD doesn't include seven halfass web browsers, two versions of Emacs, twenty-four other text editors, sixtyfive graphical front ends to an MP3 player, six web servers and eight desktop environments.

Nor does it include a C compiler, a Python interpreter, or sixty-eight random broken tools only a software developer would use.

Face it, your Windows XP CD isn't sufficient and doesn't have all the tools your Aunt needs to balance her checkbook, play a game of solitaire, browse the web and read her email.

Re:Doesn't this say it all?

[geekoid]

Does it even occur to them to think "why do these people hate AOL, and what can we do to attract them?"