Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:00:36 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Good News! FreeBSD monopoly! (Was: Good News! Commercial Backing For FreeBSD) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909130800120.11665-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: >Walnut Creek is more than just a "commercial backer" of FreeBSD. It is the >owner of the trademark "FreeBSD," which means that -- in theory -- it can >prevent anyone else from publishing a distribution of FreeBSD that can >say that it's FreeBSD on the label." One thing you fail to mention is that FreeBSD, Inc is property of Jordan K Hubbard. If WC does this crazy thing you propose, I will put out JasonBSD tomorrow based on 3.x-stable and ask Jordan to run the project for me. :p >Cheap Bytes. And WC could shut them down at any time by asserting its >ownership of the trademark. Hell, they could sue Jordan for naming his business FreeBSD, Inc. In fact, one might say that they have already lost trademark because they have not defended their TM against the avaricous jkh. And what is Jordan, chopped liver? Without his support WC won't have squat. >>Brett, being an effective writer, > >Thank you! Your welcome! >I say that it has revealed some nagging problems which are doing FreeBSD harm. >You're blaming the messenger. What problems and what nag? Look, jkh knows all of the things you say. FreeBSD and WC are his gravy train. We can trust him because he is trustworthy, but we can also trust him because he has a vested interest in the success of FreeBSD. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehelp
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