From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 30 08:02:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13029 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from snark.thyrsus.com ([192.190.237.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12994 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:02:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from esr@snark.thyrsus.com) Received: (from esr@localhost) by snark.thyrsus.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA16527; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:07:15 -0400 Message-ID: <19980730110715.A16515@snark.thyrsus.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:07:15 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Don Wilde Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: branding References: <35BFEBEF.82BA6DC6@ibm.net> <17242.901789446@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <17242.901789446@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 02:04:06AM -0700 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard : > It also makes no sense since there ARE profit making entities behind > FreeBSD, among them being Walnut Creek CDROM, Whistle Communications, > Oracle/NCI (who rebadges FreeBSD as "NC/OS"), to name but a few. And if you look at the `cases' page, you'll see that both Whistle and Walnut Creek are in fact listed there. When I hear from Oracle/NCI, I'll add them too. It's always wise to get your facts straight before flaming. -- Eric S. Raymond Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim -- when he defends himself -- as a criminal. -- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message