Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 11:00:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: ferovick@runner.jpl.utsa.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A "FreeBSD" Daemon Message-ID: <199503251100.LAA27845@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20359.796079204@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 24, 95 01:06:44 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199503251100.LAA27845>