From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 06:12:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20333 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 06:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20326 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 13:12:11 GMT (envelope-from n-ludban@onu.edu) Received: from austin.onu.edu (austin.onu.edu [140.228.10.1]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA02401 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:12:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:12:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Neil Ludban To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? In-Reply-To: <199804130935.CAA03593@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [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