AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat (fwd)

[augie]

personally i think the AOL/Red Hat deal (...or AOLinux as it may one day be 
called) will be a good thing for the linux community if it happens. it will 
draw more attention and developers over to linux. also if AOL/TW starts 
throwin' around some money that would'nt be so bad either. 

a plus could be more pressure on hardware vendors to supply support for 
linux. (maybe winmodems will actually work under linux!) 

i agree however that RH could get chewed up and spat out by the AOL/TW 
machine. but the distrobution wouldn't have to die there, a group could 
easily take the last non-AOL version and keep building off of that to keep it 
alive.

ME wrote:
> If we could get more SSU CS majors over to our LUG, we might be able to
> have some more technical talks.

from what i've seen (being an ssu cs major) that's a long shot. most of the 
people seem to be pretty windows entrenched. and most of the courses are 
taught using either windows or macs. the faculty i think is fairly well 
rounded, but the courses they teach usually push them to be more of the mac 
or MS persuasion. although i have found them very accomidating when i want to 
do my projects, and not use the OS everyone else in the class is using. 

perhaps more installfests, and maybe get some of these announcements posted 
on the cs website www.cs.sonoma.edu would help raise awareness, and maybe get 
some more of my peers over to the nblug meetings. also the cs department has 
a colloquium every semmester if the schedule isn't already filled maybe 
someone could do some sort of a linux talk, or maybe just an open source 
talk. i know i'd definantly find that intersting.

--augie