From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 09:40:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01102 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01056 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:40:33 GMT (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14472; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:40:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804131640.KAA14472@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:40:24 -0600 To: dg@root.com From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: New name? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804130935.CAA03593@implode.root.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:35 AM 4/13/98 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >It's taken us five years to get the >name recognition that we have now, and changing the name now would be >suicide. Er, WHAT recognition? When I mention FreeBSD, very few professionals even know what I'm talking about. And the "Free," the internal rhyme, and the similarity to the colloquialism "freebie" give the initial impresssion that it's a toy, a game, something cheap, or something that's less than serious. It's easy not to see this if one is too close, but them's the facts. There's MUCH more to be gained than to be lost by using better names and mounting a serious publicity campaign. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message