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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:30:12 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality <cjc26@cornell.edu>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rebranding FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19990821123012.A267@marder-1>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908201804290.535-100000@tankgrrl>; from a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 06:05:51PM -0400
References:  <19990820114848.A3785@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908201804290.535-100000@tankgrrl>

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On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 06:05:51PM -0400, a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> | 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?).
> 
> But I thought black was the k3wlest color of all.
> 
> "BlackBSD"...now that's nice and alliterative..
> 

Sounds good, but the colour black is associated with Satan, the
Dark Side and all things evil. Would it not reinforce the belief
that FreeBSD is bad, by those who don't know a daemon from a demon?

> 
> -- 
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