Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 20:08:02 +0100 From: Richard Smith <rsmith@trltech.co.uk> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: Brian McGroarty <BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a product Message-ID: <37AB3292.A1B2F241@trltech.co.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9908061131250.1020-100000@mercury.webnology.com>
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Jasper O'Malley wrote: > > Barring a massive shift in the alignment of the planets, there's > absolutely no chance that the BSD Daemon will disappear from the cover of > the FreeBSD CD-ROM distributions. I'd almost be willing to say most people > in the project are willing to risk the loss of market share to avoid > playing to the ignorant masses that immediately identify the daemon with > the Christian image of Satan and choose not to buy as a result. Irrelevant. The cover of a "Walnut Creek" CR ROM has nothing to do with the Project's mascot. Me thinks. > FWIW, FreeBSD can't use the name UNIX anywhere. It's a trademark owned by > the X/Open Group (unless they've sold it to someone else at this point). > To use the name, an operating system needs to meet some arbitrary standard > of what a "UNIX" is, and the distributors need to pay an obscene licensing > fee. I must admit that I thought it strange at the time, but the Walnut Creek CR ROM's _do_ carry the word "UNIX", in the bottom right hand corner, under the BSD Daemon (the proper one, not the pissed waiter). Richard Smith. User. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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