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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.
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TTFN,
patrick