From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 16:55:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B94106566B for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:55:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364F08FC13 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 10224523; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:55:26 -0400 Received: from [192.168.43.232] (account jon@radel.com HELO gravenstein.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 10224521 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:55:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4DFCD869.5050205@radel.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:55:05 -0400 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110617170347.GB55156@scout.stangl.us> <201106172202.p5HM29Gr017973@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20110618143607.GA23314@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20110618143607.GA23314@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer Subject: Re: free sco unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:55:27 -0000 On 6/18/11 10:36 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:28:24PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Robert Bonomi >> wrote: >>> I'ts _MUCH_ simpler, to just sign and date a copy of the work, and have a >>> notary public 'witness' the signature. >> >> True. >> >> Without the service of a public registry of copyrighted works that (I think) >> only the US offers, and when you need a legally binding "official stamp" of >> some sort, you can go to a registered public notary. They're mildly expensive >> though; certainly a lot more expensive than the US Copyright Office fees. > > Have you ever had something notarized? I have had many things. It is > not generally expensive. They ask $5 - $20 and many banks will have > someone who will do it for for free if you have an account in the bank. > That is much cheaper than doing an officialy USA registration. > What the Notary notarizes is your signature being done at that place and on > that date. > > ////jerry This stream of comments from people who, for reasons I can't quite fathom, but I like to give them the benefit of the doubt and figure that they really don't know how provincial they're being, figure that everything is *just*like*it*is*in*their*country*of*residence* is really becoming quite tedious. Could we please stop it? Face it folks, despite global commerce and a heap of treaties, the low-level mechanics of how banking, the courts, notarizing documents, applying for patents, registering copyrights, etc., etc., etc. work vary from country to country, sometimes rather wildly. --Jon Radel jon@radel.com Adding terribly to the noise, once and only once