From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 23 17:50:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CA514E1E for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:50:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id RAA19887; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:46:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA22275; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:46:42 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA06603; Fri, 23 Apr 99 17:46:40 PDT Message-Id: <37211471.43F5F48B@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:46:41 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, sam@conio.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trademarks References: <199904231802.LAA24545@usr02.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if "The power to serve" is worth trademarking though; > > > we tend to change our slogan every couple of years. :-) > > > > I've been thinking about this lately. How 'bout "FreeBSD: networking > > at the speed of thought." > > To be pedantic, neurons repolarize in 1/120th of a second, making > "the speed of though" 120 Hz. > > This would be a more appropriate slogan for NT^W*ahem* a different OS. But somebody already used it for something else. An NT/Win2K marketing brochure, apparently. ;^) Chairman Bill: "Find some way to make me more money or I will have you publicly flogged, then force you to forfeit your stock options." Marketroid: "How 'bout selling our marketing materials to the customer rather than giving they away?" Chairman Bill: "Excellent idea. You're a Vice President now." -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message