From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 20 15:57:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E3E153AE; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA37404; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:32:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA04478; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:48:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:48:48 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Nik Clayton Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebranding FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990820114848.A3785@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990819121942.A13140@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990819121942.A13140@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 12:19:42PM +0100 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message