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From: rick@kong.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Cannons Away: Vote NO on newsgroup reformation.
Date: 9 Feb 1995 23:30:21 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA
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Message-ID: <3heq4t$mun@kong.UU.NET>
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In article <D3o5Ew.8x2@nbn.com>, jmonroy <jmonroy@calon.com> wrote:
>	Unwillingness is what we will encounter.  I have just recently 
>	learned that Microsoft has purchased UUNET.  

This is not true. Microsoft has purchased a small amount of UUNET stock
ans have several other investors.

>	How does this impact us?

>	UUNET has been, for sometime, a sponsor of BSDI.
>	BSDI, as you know, is the commercial venture of 386bsd.


UUNET has no relationship with BSDI other than as a happy customer.

Sorry to destroy your conspiracy theories.