Author: Chris Aitken Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] How should the Open Source world handle new
vulnerabilities?
2009/9/28 Lisi <hantslug@???>
> On Monday 28 September 2009 10:46:34 Chris Aitken wrote:
> > > > serious security vulnerabilities. The impact on users, business's,
> code
> > >
> > > On a lighter educational note, I've used the possessive apostrophe for
> > > business, businesses is the correct plural. Like many of us I tend to
> > > hammer
> > > out words in a creative frame of mind then go back with a critical
> > > analytical
> > > view, usually after a good night's [1] sleep.
> > >
> > > [1] This is a possessive apostrophe, the sleep is owned by the night.
> >
> > businesses' surely?
>
> No - businesses' is again the possessive, just the plural possessive. The
> plural is, as Damian says, businesses; nothing, in Damian's sentence, is
> said
> to belong to the businesses on which there is an impact. (The sentence -
> that particular sentence - belongs to Damian. So Damian's.)
>
> Sorry - thought he was after the possessive plural!
