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                            Perceptions of ownership
                                        
Continuing in missing the big picture [1] for the small details is this quote
I found in a rather long article (via CamWorld [2]) about beating Microsoft: 

> … its war with Microsoft. AOL (owned by the parent company of this
> magazine) … 
> 

Page two [3] of Beating Bill [4] 

Funny, I thought AOL (America OnLine) [5] owned Time/Warner, not the other
way around. Now, it might be that the reporter is ignorant of who owns who,
but I wonder if this isn't the feeling around Time/Warner—they bought AOL and
not the other way around. 

Or is it that AOL (America OnLine) [6] is owned by AOL Time/Warner, which
also owns Business 2.0 [7]? Or could it be that no one knows who owns who but
does it really matter anyway? 

I think I'm getting a headache. 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/05/19.1
[2] http://www.camworld.com/
[3] http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40438
[4] http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40438,FF.html
[5] http://www.aol.com/
[6] http://www.aol.com/
[7] http://www.business2.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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