From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 31 18:41:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA16445 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:41:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA16440 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA01297; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:11:00 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708010141.LAA01297@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Windows OT? (was Re: UNIX World Online) In-Reply-To: <199708010018.TAA17410@nexgen.hiwaay.net> from "dkelly@hiwaay.net" at "Jul 31, 97 07:18:42 pm" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:10:59 +0930 (CST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk dkelly@hiwaay.net stands accused of saying: > > I rather appreciated the professional low key jab at New Technology in the > 1st issue of the FreeBSD Newsletter. Have been wondering if it would be A > Good Thing to demonstrate our sense of humor and add some letters to > FreeBSD's name. Call it, "FreeBSD OT" or because Microsoft was unable to > trademark Windows we could subtitle FreeBSD, "Windows OT". > > The OT could stand for Old Technology, Open Technology, or lots of other > things. Everybody has brainstormed new and more appropriate definitions for > NT at one time or another... :-) Oh dear. Before FreeBSD could be OT, it would have to be Clear. Hey, we could have the first Clear OS! (Note, I am _not_ affiliated with the RTC, CoS or any similar organisation) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[