Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Sep 2005 14:55 UTC, submitted by kellym
Time Warner and Microsoft are in advanced talks over Microsoft buying a stake in Time Warner's America Online unit, the New York Post reported on Thursday. Citing two unnamed sources familiar with the matter, the Post said the talks concern Microsoft acquiring an AOL stake and then combining it with Microsoft's Web unit MSN.
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AOL doesn't develop Netscape anymore. They outsource it to a Canadian company. And even then, all they really do is re-brand the Mozilla code as Netscape and ship it out.
As for Microsoft pulling back the "communicator" code, they can't. It's GPL/LGPL/MPL, so it's open source for ever. That does leave me to wonder, however, if MS intends (one day) to replace Trident (the current rendering/layout engine in MSIE) with Gecko (Mozilla's counterpart). I think it'll be real interested to see what comes of this (if anything).
Let's not forget however that this is not perse an "aquisition" but just MS buying a "stake" in AOL, not the whole pie (yet).