From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 8 14:21:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826B537B555 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:21:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA21103; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:20:19 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:20:19 +0000 From: Nik Clayton 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? Message-ID: <20000308222018.A20782@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <4.3.0.20000308085724.00b0f000@mail.borg-cube.com> <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:32:55PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:32:55PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > 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? The Slashdot interview with Bob Bruce should answer this. In a nutshell, the FreeBSD trademark has been turned over to the FreeBSD core team, they decide who can use it. For more info, I guess you need to approach -core. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message