Never Enough Monster Movie Economics Department

AOL in Negotiations to Acquire Red Hat (washingtonpost.com)

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.

The AOL online software, which consumers can install free from the Web or a compact disk, is now designed to run on Microsoft's Windows operating system. But the AOL software could be configured to override Windows and launch a version of Red Hat's Linux operating system, sources said.

...Launch it off what, the CD-ROM? If so... welcome to The Linux That Crawled.