Aol & Ms

[Embattle]

Ooer:

http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html

I personally think people are reading a little too much into this

 

[Summo]

[Linux] is popular with the tech crowd and, according to industry estimates, runs about 30 percent of all computers servers –the powerful computers that function as hubs on a network.

MY HUBS AER RUNNING TEH LINUX???!!!!¬!¬!!!!

 

[MYstIC G]

Suffice to say RedHat won't be on my system for more than the 30seconds it takes to delete the partition if that happens, AOL CDs for AOLix..... No Ta

 

[(Shovel)]

quite amusingly this could be another attempt by a bit corp. to control open source.
/me lights up the fires and burns off AOLs fingers. And feat. haha.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Don't AOL bash for the sake of it Note that AOL's takeover of netscape has actually helped speed up the mozilla project, so don't assume AOL are evil anti-opensourced buggers like MS are(AOL is one of the main anti-MS net conmponies).

 

[MYstIC G]

I'm not bashing AOL for the sake of it, I used to like Netscape, now its crap, I used to like winamp, now it tries to install AOL icons, with something like this it would be long before AOL turned it into a "just insert the DVD in your Drive and AOL will setup your entire computer"..... we thought m$ were going 'newbified' for XP but this could just be bad.

 

[Sar]

Originally posted by ShockingAlberto
Don't AOL bash for the sake of it Note that AOL's takeover of netscape has actually helped speed up the mozilla project, so don't assume AOL are evil anti-opensourced buggers like MS are(AOL is one of the main anti-MS net conmponies).

Only cos M$ are better at the whole monopoly thing than AOL are and control a lot of what AOL want to have dibs on.

 

[(Shovel)]

and as if anything more needs to be said:

Besides financial damages, AOL has said it wants to "restore competition lost in the operating system and web browser market because of Microsoft's illegal conduct".

Source: BBC News

So, it seems that they are going to try and make something out of Linux. If the Linux community has a ny sense, they will tag along then jump ship with the source code before its too late.

 

[MYstIC G]

Gotta love how AOL stir up all this crap again after it was all finally blowing over, such a bunch of wankers.

 

[FuZor]

Originally posted by ShockingAlberto
Don't AOL bash for the sake of it Note that AOL's takeover of netscape has actually helped speed up the mozilla project, so don't assume AOL are evil anti-opensourced buggers like MS are(AOL is one of the main anti-MS net conmponies).

ERM... You do realise AOL use MS IE as there Browser!!!! Hardly ANTI MS is it????

 

[ShockingAlberto]

AOL Own Netscape, and they're currently sueing MS for anti-competition issues with IE. I beleave they include IE with their software for fairness.

I'm not an AOL fanboy, and i'm not an MS fanboy, i'm simply pointing out the facts. Anyway, it's been confirmed that this will never happen.