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Microsoft Eyeing AOL?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the come-here-sweetie-and-give-daddy-a-kiss dept.

meriksen writes "This article on the CNN website suggests that Microsoft is looking to acquire AOL. What are the chances and do /. readers think this will ever happen?" The NY Post story is slightly more informative.

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  1. Re:AOL a Dog? by Almost-Retired · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We aren't slaves to the Microsoft Empire, just sharecroppers.

    'scuse me, but I don't even share the same dirt with that monopolistic bunch of jerks.

    There isn't ANY windows in this house that aren't made out of transparent silica sand and held in either wooden or polyvinal(sp) frames, good for keeping out the cold (or hot) breezes of the outdoors.

    Linux keeps me comfortable in the presence of 200+ copies of the latest windows-centric worm de-jour a day in my inbox, and deleted on sight.

    IMO, AOL, like windows and microsoft, will be nothing but a footnote in judicial history in another 10 years.

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  2. Govt needs to put a stop to this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Anyone else find this just incredibly wrong? All these huge ass corporations and companies buying each other out.. getting more and more powerful to the point where they're allowed to step all over the law because they can "settle" out of court with the govt/their victims.

    Why the hell do these corporations want so much power? Why do they want all this money? Bill Gates already has more than he knows what to do with.. so... what's the point in continuing? It's not like they're benefitting all of mankind or technology, in fact, they're hindering its progress. What gives?

    There's something fucked up going on here.

  3. Re:AOL a Dog? by nightsweat · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    That would require us to have a functional SEC. Antitrust is dead under Bush.

    Though they sure did go after Martha, didn't they?

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