Some good could come of it. "To counter Microsoft's desktop hegemony, New York-based AOL Time Warner could use the deal to couple its America Online software, the market leader with more than 33 million Internet subscribers, with Red Hat's operating-system technology, sources said." Bob Tanner wrote: > Please tell me it isn't so! > > AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat > http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html > > After Microsoft, AOL is the next bully I'd like to see whittle down a little. >