From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 8 13:44:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A528237C01C for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:43:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA19901; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:38:49 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003082138.NAA19901@implode.root.com> To: Brett Glass Cc: "Donald Burr of Borg - http://www.borg-cube.com/" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:32:55 MST." <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:38:49 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message