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From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: A "FreeBSD" Daemon
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 11:00:19 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <20359.796079204@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 24, 95 01:06:44 pm
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said
> I think that, with a little work, the "Free" in "FreeBSD" can either
> gain brand-name status or become synonymous with a different
> connotation of "free", that meaning openness (REAL openness, not the
> ersatz openness of most OpenThis and OpenThat standards), freedom to
> develop it, freedom to share the work with many external developers
> which may constitute a serious part of your business development
> resource, etc.

I agree. The way to get FreeBSD accepted as a "serious" OS is to make it
a rock solid product and to market it properly. The name then becomes
synonymous with a quality product. This is already starting to happen
and to change names now would be a step back.

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/
  Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
  Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.