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To: OrionX who wrote (32007)	1/25/2002 3:50:31 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

...why does AOL have to buy any company when they can put together and customize their own freeware version of Linux? Well, Red Hat HAS done a lot of work on adding features and tighter integration in Linux. I don't know much about what they've done specifically, but three reasons I could think of off the top of my head why AOL might be interested are (1) like Netscape, an accepted Linux with a user base might be important to their eternally ongoing negotiations with Microsoft and its cronies, (2) maybe Red Hat actually has some good proprietary technology that AOL would want like networking stacks or an embedded version or something, and (3) for some strategic reason they may just want to keep somebody else (like Microsoft) from buying them. But the whole thing is just an unsubstantiated rumor at this point anyway, right? Probably spread by somebody who wanted to pump up Red Hat stock so he could dump on a spike. If so, it's probably a respected analyst or some desperate bigwig from Dubya's Enron empire. Where's Cheney been, anyway? Don't they have minimum-wage office boys for operating the shredder? Dave