On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 13:55, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Dan G wrote: > > > Would be nice. I also read MS got dinged 750 Million by the courts to payout > > Aol this week as well. > > All I got out of the AOL articles I read was that M$ paid AOL $750M to license > AOL technology. IOW I do not see how this settlement in any way punishes > M$. If anything I think in time Netscape/Mozilla will go away since AOL has > royalty free rights to IE for 7 years and AOL and M$ are partnering. I hope I > am wrong but......-- .....Tom Given the history, and the obvious, M$ came out on top and dinged the beachhead of Netscape/Mozilla versus M$IE in this exchange. The question remains what potential harm to RH in specific and commercialized distros of Linux in general they can do via their client-stooges at SCO via their harassing lawsuit versus Linux, supposedly on behalf of Unix. doc