[12664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mansfield)
Wed Oct 1 11:09:46 1997
From: Steve Mansfield <steve@nwnet.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:00:55 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-To: steve@nwnet.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971001083027.006a0a00@bluebill.nap.net> from "Chris A. Icide" at Oct 1, 97 08:30:27 am
> Doesn't Bill Gates own some portion of the WC conglomerate?
>
> It sures smells like a BG thing.
>
> Microsquish owns the desktop/Servers and WC owns the Internet/
> Telecommunications, and Bill owns them both? Thrills, gotta
> love the advances we would see then, mainly in price....
He used to own a sizeable chunk of UUNET, back before they got bought by
MFS and then Worldcom. His chunk these days probably isn't so sizeable any
more.
Steve Mansfield steve@nwnet.net
NorthWestNet Network Engineer 425-649-7467
