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RE: MCI as an access provider

Bill Gates to Nathan Myhrvold, Russell Siegelman and Tom Evslin, October 13, 1994

Exhibit130
From
Bill Gates
Sent
Thursday, October 13, 1994 1:05 PM
To
Nathan Myhrvold, Russell Siegelman, Tom Evslin
Subject
RE: MCI as an access provider

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I think Russ's arguments are the strongest ones here. We are trying to make Marvel be a better experience than Internet and use that to drive scale and IPs to take advantage of our uniqueness. It is a tough challenge but very important. If someone has something aimed directly at ANCS (the novell thing) then I would be open minded to that since Marvel isnt aimed there but Internet access overlaps MOS too much.
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About this email

Gates replied to an argument from Russell Siegelman against giving MCI access to the Windows box as an Internet access provider, in a thread started by Tom Evslin. Anthony Bay forwarded Gates's comments to Ben Slivka on October 25, 1994.