Well, it is interesting that a closed source commercial company would be buying a company like RedHat. Something not right about that picture.
As far as AOL benefitting from the 600 employees, there's always layoffs with aquisitions. These aren't the best times for people to be keeping their jobs in such situations. Stocks are stuggling, economy is a lil rocky right now. Now, in order for AOL to get anywhere from this deal, they'd have to keep most everyone from RedHat since AOL doesn't know jack crap about what they're getting into. On the bright side of things, AOL brings with it... funds. Funding is much needed at this point in time. AOL's stock would probably increase in value, but they're gonna have to realize that they can't step on too many feet in the process. They aren't bringing the development experience to the table... RedHat is. Television advertising could also be a big possibility since I don't remember ever seeing a RedHat commercial on TV. So, I think such a deal would be financially positive.. again, if AOL vows to let RH continue as they have been. Sorry if any of this info has already been mentioned. I've been trying to keep up with this thread :) -Statux On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > Well, if they are not running away, AOL would benefit from the 600 > employees (minus Alan Cox) who are most experienced with RH. > > > At 02:20 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > this may be a naive question but, what exactly would AOL > >get from *buying* red hat, as opposed to simply *using* red hat. > >after all, given the GPL nature of red hat, certainly they have > >the right to build any technology around red hat that they want, > >provided that they don't violate the terms of the GPL. and they > >can do that without buying any part of red hat. > > > >rday > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Redhat-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > Ezra Nugroho > Web/Database Application Specialist > Goshen College ITS > Phone: (574) 535-7706 > > > "Don't be humble, you're not that great." -- Golda Meir > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- -Statux _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
