Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 02:35:34 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? Message-ID: <199804130935.CAA03593@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:48:33 MDT." <199804130448.WAA07346@lariat.lariat.org>
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>At 09:42 PM 4/12/98 -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > >>Don't forget that "BSD" is a registered trademark of BSD, Inc. > >I was under the impression that without the "I" or "Inc." immediately >following the letters "BSD," it was NOT their trademark. That would be a bad impression, then. "BSD" is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. "FreeBSD", "NetBSD", and "OpenBSD" are also seperately trademarked by various entities - these were all given away to each of these groups by BSDI. Creating another "BSD", even if it were just a name change, would be a significant legal problem, not mention a major marketing mistake. It's taken us five years to get the name recognition that we have now, and changing the name now would be suicide. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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