From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 18 23:51:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C27537B424; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:51:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3J6p5k41198; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Terry Lambert" , "David Johnson" Cc: "John Baldwin" , Subject: RE: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:51:05 -0700 Message-ID: <006f01c0c89d$1b1ed500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <200104181758.KAA17199@usr02.primenet.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Terry Lambert > >If it came down to it, the FreeBSD project could survive much >better than Linux, in a similar situation, since so many of us >have full copies of the historical source repository, back to >day one, but it's possible that we would not be able to call >the resulting software "FreeBSD". > > Well, we could always go back to using "386BSD" since William Jolitz did eventually relent and agree to allow use of that trademark on the result of the patchkit merger and his port (which was named FreeBSD) It would definitely help heal an old wound in the movement. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message