On Saturday, the Washington Post quoted unnamed sources ``familiar with the matter'' saying that AOL Time Warner (NYSE:AOL - news) was in talks to buy Red Hat. The thinking went: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Red Hat sells Linux, an alternative operating system to Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT - news) Windows. And AOL (which owns Netscape, the rival Web browser to Microsoft's Explorer) views Mr. Softee as an arch-nemesis.
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