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Reasons AOL Time Warner Would Buy Red Hat
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| 11. |
New metric of average customer IQ all
the rage on Wall Street. |
| 10. |
Fears Red Hat may use its monopoly of
the 12 Linux using AOL subscribers against it to keep it off the
KDE desktop. |
| 9. |
Securing the rights to "The Life
and Times of Michael Tiemann" movie trilogy their highest priority. |
| 8. |
Confused Red Hat with the company that
makes the Where in the World is Carmen San Diego game. |
| 7. |
Can simply modify ad campaign to say, "So
difficult no wonder you'll have to ask your geek nephew for help
printing." |
| 6. |
Running out of computer users to alienate. |
| 5. |
"The kids keep teasing me about not
being cutting edge, so I had to do something about it, Mom" |
| 4. |
Negotiations to purchase Microsoft not
going so well. |
| 3. |
Because Red Hat said they would give them
the source code to Linux if AOL Time Warner purchased them. |
| 2. |
Wanted to add to their growing stable
of technological has-beens. |
| 1. |
Steve Case is following 2 month salary
rule of thumb for purchasing other companies. |
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