Quoting James Stauffer (jstauffer at baldwin-telecom.net):
> 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."

This assumes AOL won't bastardize linux, GNOME/KDE to make it happen.
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