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Subject:Re: Linking to other's pages From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 22 May 1997 11:16:05 -0700
At 11:38 AM 5/22/97 -0500, Arlen wrote:
>Microsoft's "Seattle Sidewalk" contains links to Ticketmaster's on-line
>ticket ordering site for specific concerts. Ticketmaster has a site with
>information about the concerts it sells tickets for. Ticketmaster didn't
>like the fact that people were getting their concert information from MS.
>(At a guess, I'd say it might be because of lost advertising revenue, but
>I'm not fully aware of the circumstances here, so I could be wrong.)
>
This dispute is particularly hilarious because Bill Gates' old partner, Paul
Allen, owns Ticketmaster (although I recently read that he wants to sell it).
--Wayne Douglass
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