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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