[12665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesse M. Caulfield)
Wed Oct 1 11:33:49 1997
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:31:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jesse M. Caulfield" <jesse@netthink.com>
To: Steve Mansfield <steve@nwnet.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710011500.IAA24538@cypress.nwnet.net>
Sizeable? ~17% was rather significant. Anyone know whether Microsoft's
stake was bought out or carried over when UU sold to MFS?
--
Jesse
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Steve Mansfield wrote:
> > 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
>
