From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 27 21:12:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from postman.bayarea.net (postman.bayarea.net [205.219.84.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF9D14A09 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:12:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Dave@Yost.com) Received: from [205.219.69.138] (205-219-69-138.bayarea.net [205.219.69.138]) by postman.bayarea.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22064; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:12:13 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Sender: dayost@mail.bayarea.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <36D8BBA8.D2CE3D40@thuntek.net> References: Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:11:29 -0800 To: Don Wilde From: Dave Yost Subject: Re: The Linux PR firestorm disaster (w.r.t. FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:44 PM -0800 1999-02-27, Don Wilde wrote: > Dave Yost wrote: >> Second order of business, I think, is to make as much of a P.R. splash as= possible that FreeBSD is looking for a new, flashy name so it can better= compete for mindshare with linux. A write-in campaign to the press on this= matter would be great. The end result of this may in fact be to stick with= the name, but the PR attention will be good. >> > This has been hashed ad infinitum. FreeBSD it stays. If you want to > change the name you can always cut your own CD's, tnx to BSD license. But it has not been done under the spotlight of publicity, right? Big diffe= rence. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message