From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 13 13:36:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5491C37B65D for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06623; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:36:10 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000313143452.041d34f0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:36:07 -0700 To: "John Daniels" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Merger, and ... In-Reply-To: <20000313065644.28278.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:56 PM 3/12/2000 , John Daniels wrote: >Hi: >To throw some light on this ongoing converstation, prehaps it is worthwhile to go to the source: >Linus Torvalds recently described his view of the Linux trademark: > http://linuxtoday.com/stories/15302.html Good point. Linus also balks at cybersquatting. >My 2cents: >It is in both WC/BSDI's and FreeBSD developers and users interest that 1) the aims and integrity of FreeBSD are respected, and 2) FreeBSD grows in usage. It seems natural that over time, this will lead to a greater separation between FreeBSD and WC/BSDI and additional commercial distributors/ventures. This may evolve in a way similar to linux but will probably also have some unique characteristics. > >Mostly, the current discussion demonstrates the need for WC/BSDI to provide as much information about their plans as soon as possible. I agree! I'm waiting with bated breath to publish what I think is some great stuff. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message