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Date:      Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:38:49 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        "Donald Burr of Borg - http://www.borg-cube.com/" <dburr@borg-cube.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? 
Message-ID:  <200003082138.NAA19901@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:32:55 MST." <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> 

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>More to the point: What will be the effect on the ability of organizations
>other than BSD, Inc. to make and sell distributions of FreeBSD? Will the
>merged company now attempt to deny anyone else permission to use the
>letters "BSD" in a product name, for example?

   There is only one FreeBSD. If you tried to distribute/sell something that
wasn't FreeBSD and you called it FreeBSD, then we'd have a problem with that.
Otherwise there is no problem with other people selling FreeBSD.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
Pave the road of life with opportunities.


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