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Re: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Sep 8 21:49:39 2005

In-Reply-To: <20050908210913.1185C17D5@fiji.merit.edu>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:46:17 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Sep 8, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Mark Bodley wrote:

> His name has never "hurt" a companies stock price. Remember MCI--Um,
> Worldcom. Remembering.. Um lost a ton of money... just remember.  
> First time
> I have noticed Google do anything so blatant. Time to sell Google?  
> Are they
> spending money on figure heads?

Dr. Cerf is still well in possession of his enormous faculties and  
has an excellent grasp of both business and technical issues.  He is  
an asset to any company he joins.

Figure Head?  Possibly.  But certainly not an empty one.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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