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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (220239)	1/20/2002 12:02:55 AM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Here go the 'polls' down the sh*tter ...LOL: dailynews.yahoo.com Comments? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha bia

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (220239)	1/20/2002 12:52:45 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I love those kind of weekends, training to be a borg. You are training to be what? I forget what they call AOL, oh yeah, their are demolibs aren't they? demolib commies? Tommy the commie? LOL! <g? AOL in Talks to Buy Linux Distributor Red Hat WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Media and Internet titan AOL Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:AOL - news) is in negotiations to acquire Red Hat Inc.(Nasdaq:RHAT - news), a distributor of the alternative computer operating system Linux (news - web sites), the Washington Post reported citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter. The talks were fluid and it was unclear how much AOL, which runs the biggest U.S. Internet service provider and the second-largest U.S. cable television system, would pay for Red Hat, the newspaper said. Red Hat is the leading distributor of Linux, which unlike software such as rival Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows operating system, is an ``open source'' platform that anyone can change to suit their needs. Spokespeople for the three companies declined to comment on the negotiations, the newspaper reported. Linux has gained growing favor with businesses, especially to power the heavy-duty server computers that dish up Web pages and run corporate networks. The attempted acquisition is the latest indication that AOL is seeking alternative software to that made by rival Microsoft, the maker of Windows which runs 90 percent of the world's personal computers, the Washington Post said. To counter Microsoft, AOL could couple its Internet service with Red Hat's operating system technology and could be configured to override Windows while launching a version of Linux, sources told the newspaper.