Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:48:48 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebranding FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990820114848.A3785@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19990819121942.A13140@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 12:19:42PM %2B0100 References: <19990819121942.A13140@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 12:19:42PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> Since there's still plenty of time before FreeBSD 4.0 is launched, perhaps
> we might consider rebranding it?
In case this wasn't sufficiently obvious (and judging by some of the
private e-mail I've received, it wasn't), this
> Personally, I think launching it as "Windows NT Service Pack 6" might get
> us a few more sales. . .
was a joke guys.
I wonder if I could pick up some bumper stickers while I'm at FreeBSDCon;
NT: Retry Reboot Reformat Reinstall. . . FreeBSD
or something like that (the annoying thing about that line is that it
actually sounds better if the last word is "RedHat", not "FreeBSD". Hmm,
"RedBSD" anyone?).
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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