Userfriendly has an amusing view of the AOL / Redhat buyout rumor:
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/02jan/xuf003850.gif
This view actually correlates with my initial take: no way is there a
significant market of ordinary people ready for what we call "Linux"
(or anything close to what we call Linux). It would have to be an
embedded "appliance" type thingie or maybe something like the
relationship Mac OS X <==> FreeBSD. (and, heh, heh, look at the great
things *that* has done for popularizing FreeBSD ;-)
An advantage, though, to doing something like this is that over time
they could add important OSS as long as they could sanitize it for the
un-washed masses.
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