Re: [school-discuss] AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat (washingtonpost.com)

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>I think that if RedHat somehow is turned toward increasing
>proprietization of their distro, the major effect will be to boost
>SuSE's and Mandrake's sales.

SlackWare is next on my list. ;)

At 14:50 2002.01.19 -0500, you wrote:
>Matt Jezorek wrote:
>> 
>> > Please, do not forget that RedHat support the core Linux
>> > technology: gcc, IIRC.
>> 
>> This scares me even more, wonder if this deal goes thru if the support for
>> these groups will continue, also wonder how quick it will be before alot of
>> closed source stuff ends in the redhat install, does it become a marketing tool
>> like windows is to alot of companies, So now we though AOL icons on the
>> desktop, closed source libraries, and other stuff, kinda scary to think about.
>> 
>Don't get too worried just yet.  The deal hasn't gone through yet, if it
>does it's not obvious that AOL will try to take RedHat in the direction
>that Caldera went, if they do and stop supporting things like gcc,
>GNOME, etc, their employees who are currently working on those may
>continue to do so anyway from personal conviction, if they don't
>continue others will likely step in to pick up the work load.
>
>I think that if RedHat somehow is turned toward increasing
>proprietization of their distro, the major effect will be to boost
>SuSE's and Mandrake's sales.
>
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