[13680] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTE to acquire Genuity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Linneweh)
Thu Nov 13 23:35:38 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 20:27:06 -0800
From: Henry Linneweh <linneweh@concentric.net>
Reply-To: linneweh@hotmail.com
To: Josh Richards <jrichard@fix.net>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Hmmm if my memory serves me right I believe MicroSoft has 3 of its directors on
UUnets board, and that very well could be the end run on the network. The
thought is not comforting....
Henry R. Linneweh
Josh Richards wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 mec@ummagumma.ops.usa.net wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Chris Cook, Net Asset LLC wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > And when that happens, Microsoft will buy Worldcomm. And then Microsoft
> > > > will require AOL to use MSN's interface bundled with Worldcomm's
> > > > connectivity or get no connectivity at all.
> > >
> > > Shhhh. Don't give the Evil Empire any ideas....
> > >
> >
> > perhaps I've been smoking too much crack, but back when MSN was getting
> > started, Microsoft dumped a large amount of money in UUNET's lap. How
> > much of this ended up going towards UUNET stock? And if they owned a
> > chunk then, they'd own a chunk of Worldcomm now. But then, I may just be
> > smoking too much crack.
>
> Yep..
>
> <URL:http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/7404.html>
>
> >
>
> - Josh Richards / jrichard@fix.net / Finger for PGP key -
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