Is AOL really talking to Red Hat, or is this another Red hat to buy Be rumor?
Anyway Red Hat has the Cygwin and other GCC developer tools. AOL, if they get their grubby little hands on that, could try to get into the developer tool market. They might as well buy out Borland while they are at it and pick up Delphi, J++/C++ Builder, Interbase, and others. Then buy out Corel, to get Wordperfect Office, etc. Then maybe they can seriously compete with Microsoft and Billy and Bally.