They should develop a partnership first and prove to the world that AOL is good for Red Hat and Red Hat is good for AOL. From my current view, I don't think AOL is that serious about Linux. Just look at its Linux IM client. Secondly, will AOL/Red Hat be a threat to the open source community? If AOL embraces the open source community then I have no problem with the buyout. It would be a serious threat to Microsoft. It would even better if Apple could get in there and help out with defining the user's experience. AOL + Red Hat + Apple = the fall of windows. AOL would gain from the removal of Micosoft as being the common desktop os. Red Hat would gain from being the OS that put a crack in windows. Apple could easily gain more market share in the hardware world (Which it has always consider itself as)
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They should develop a partnership first and prove to the world that AOL is good for Red Hat and Red Hat is good for AOL. From my current view, I don't think AOL is that serious about Linux. Just look at its Linux IM client. Secondly, will AOL/Red Hat be a threat to the open source community? If AOL embraces the open source community then I have no problem with the buyout. It would be a serious threat to Microsoft. It would even better if Apple could get in there and help out with defining the user's experience. AOL + Red Hat + Apple = the fall of windows. AOL would gain from the removal of Micosoft as being the common desktop os. Red Hat would gain from being the OS that put a crack in windows. Apple could easily gain more market share in the hardware world (Which it has always consider itself as)