From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner?
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 22:22:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002701c1a22a$ce4689e0$c2f20141@cp286066a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020120171718.A15510@ark.linwin.com>
but he's the modorator.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rafael" <raffi@ark.linwin.com>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL
Time-Warner?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:05:32AM +0100, Hans Zoebelein wrote:
> Sorry to say that discussíons about a merger of Redhat and AOL are off
> topic here at blinux-list. Please check out what is the topic of
> blinux-list at http://www.leb.net/blinux/blinux-faq.html
Just checked and I see no problem with users discussing RedHat or
whatever Linux related business. After all, some blind users do use
Redhat
distribution and might get affected by what happens to Redhat.
>From blinux-faq.html
"So is news related to software or hardware for the Linux user who is
blind."
Sorry, I do not agree with you on this issue. There were other less
appropriate issues discussed on the list and I don't remember any
complains.
>
> Best Regards
> --Hans
> (maintainer blinux-list)
>
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm a bit concerned that AOL Time Warner is thinking of buying
Redhat.
> > Mergers and acquisitions usually turn out badly for customers and
users.
> > The latest example is something very close to many of us - the
merger of
> > Henter-Joyce and Blazie Engineering to form Freedom Scientific. Many
> > people, including myself, have had bad experiences with this
company. But
> > at least Linux is in the public domain, so if AOL Time Warner ruins
> > redhat, we'll have other companies to turn to or can simply
distribute it
> > ourselves.
> > John
> >
> >
> > --
> > Computers to Help People, Inc.
> > http://www.chpi.org
> > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> >
--
Rafael
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner? (fwd) John J. Boyer
` Rafael
` Ron Marriage
` OFF TOPIC: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner? Hans Zoebelein
` Rafael
` David Poehlman [this message]
` Hans Zoebelein
` Rafael
` Hans Zoebelein
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