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Date:      Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:54:37 -0500
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        kpneal@pobox.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question IMPORTANT
Message-ID:  <20141020165436.GA48563@rootbsd.daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <20141020063458.GC86125@neutralgood.org>
References:  <54419d6264bb06.12658833@wp.pl> <20141020063458.GC86125@neutralgood.org>

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 02:34:58AM -0400, kpneal@pobox.com wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:51:14AM +0200, Damian Kowalczuk wrote:
> >    Hello,
> > 
> >    I am interested in buying the domain (put.com) owned to the company
> >    Putnam Internet Services, which also owns FreeBSD.
> 
> The top level web page at www.put.com says this: "We run FreeBSD."
> 
> Running FreeBSD and owning FreeBSD are totally different things.
> 
> Personally, I drive a Honda. Does anybody think I own Honda, Inc. simply
> because I publically state that I drive one? No. The same principle applies
> to anyone who says they "run" FreeBSD. I run FreeBSD as well. Does that
> mean I "own" FreeBSD? No.
> 

I "own" FreeBSD ---several copies, in fact, on optical disks, and 
contained within other storage devices, most notably hard disks.

Isn't English *fun*!?!?!!

:-)

Kevin Kinsey



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