From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 22 21: 7:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72E937B5DB for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: from originative.co.uk (lobster.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.241]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B27C1D131; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 05:07:33 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <38D9A695.E811BA3F@originative.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 05:07:33 +0000 From: Paul Richards Organization: Originative Solutions Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Jay Nelson , Greg Lehey , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's in a name? (was: The Merger,and what will its effects be on committers?) References: <38D97FFB.AAC44D40@originative.co.uk> <38D99322.E90B0E31@gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Barton wrote: > > Paul Richards wrote: > > > What I pointed out originally was that I thought it was silly to claim > > that if the foundation insisted on keeping the name, the rest of us were > > still free to go off and develop *FreeBSD* because we aren't. > > But you can't do that _now_. The merger changes nothing in this regard. I never said this had anything to do with the merger, I was replying to DES's mail where he said that there's nothing to stop us taking the project somewhere else even if Jordan et al keep the name. I still think that's a little silly since the FreeBSD project is whatever WC/core team/BSDI/foundation or whoever owns the trademark says it is. If you do something outside of the core team/foundation structure then you're not FreeBSD in my mind. You're absolutely right though, the merger hasn't changed anything that affects that at all. This thread has totally lost all its context, we should let it drop. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message