[13694] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTE to acquire Genuity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron France)
Fri Nov 14 11:50:17 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:38:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: Aaron France <aaron@hooked.net>
To: mec@ummagumma.ops.usa.net
cc: "Chris Cook, Net Asset LLC" <ccook@netasset.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971113163228.7952A-100000@ummagumma>
UUNet runs MSN's network.
I'm sure this is not a cheap operation.
That money more than likely went into network implementation
costs, as building a private nationwide dialup network can be
quite costly.
typical nanog bitter-batter: making assumptions based upon half
truths.
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.
>
>
