From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 25 18:54:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D2637B401 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA17953; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:51:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAmpaOaJ; Sun Feb 25 19:51:25 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA07261; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:54:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200102260254.TAA07261@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND To: oppermann@monzoon.net (Andre Oppermann) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 02:54:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), josb@cncdsl.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3A98E2F9.C5573CD6@monzoon.net> from "Andre Oppermann" at Feb 25, 2001 11:48:25 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Selling the company transfers ownership of the binaries. > > Nope. The owner is still the company. Just the shareholders of the > company changed. If you would look up the law books you would see > that that a company constitutes a legal person. The ownership of > the company is not matter. A company can not own a patent or copyright, it can only have the rights assigned to it by someone. Much of the copyright statements out there are based on apriori assignment of rights. With patents, it's much more explicit, but 50 years after the death of the real author, a copyright becomes void. There's no need to wait out the life of the company. There are a lot of ways in which a company is not treated as a real person under the law. As another example, it is not possible to discriminate against a company: a company has no civil rights. Neither can a company vote, be imprisoned, etc.. A company is owned by it's shareholders. Ownership of the company assets derives to its shareholders; the company itself does not technically own anything. Please see the book: New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century Jeffry A. Timmons ISBN: 0256197563 (Get it at a library if you can; it's an MBA textbook, and it's very expensive). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message