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Re: Worldcomm/UUNet makes a bid for MCI and BROOKS Fiber

  • From: Steve Mansfield
  • Date: Wed Oct 01 11:15:49 1997

> 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				 [email protected]
NorthWestNet Network Engineer	         425-649-7467