Simple. If they wanted to use Linux as the base for something in the future, they would want to make sure that the developers were stable financially. RedHat is profitable, but barely so. If there were some major issue the financial health of RH would be at risk, and so would whatever AOL might be building on top of RHL. Having the product in-house would be insurance against RH going under and putting their own projects at risk.
- rick warner On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, rpjday 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 > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
