Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:12:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Neil Ludban <n-ludban@onu.edu> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413084805.21578C-100000@austin.onu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804130935.CAA03593@implode.root.com>
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[sorry, I lost all the CC's to the news gateway] How about a language change to Latin- GratisBSD -- say "Great Is BSD" :-) I'm not in favour of a legal name change, but I think a well planned day or week long 'net wide promotion of "GratisBSD" would make a great publicity stunt. --Neil On 13 Apr 1998, David Greenman wrote: > >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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