From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 3 19: 5:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from aloha.cc.columbia.edu (aloha.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA04B15142; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 19:05:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-22-2.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.47.86]) by aloha.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA27609; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:04:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36DDF831.B3B0604A@confusion.net> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 22:04:17 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Yost Cc: eT , FreeBSD Chat , FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: what's in a name? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Name doesnt do much, otherwise either CKBe by calvin klein would fail, or BeOS would be really popular. Go figure Dave Yost wrote: > At 11:57 AM +0100 1999-03-03, eT wrote: > > you know, this whole lin*x thing has me baffled. ... i am wondering > > why linux has a larger user/suport base in the first place? could it be that > > the word linux just 'sounds' more like a friendly operating system than > > FreeBSD? and that because of this new users are more susceptible to > > using it? > > Yes! > > Linux is warm and fuzzy, like Linus, the kid with the fuzzy blanket. FreeBSD is techie and acrinomious, acronymical. (Yes, I know, there will be a chorus of fans who like it to sound techie.) And it sounds like freebie, which has the connotation of el cheapo marketing. > > > is linux perhaps a more 'marketable' name than FreeBSD? > > Absolutely. > > why not let's change the name FreeBSD to some variant > > of linux? i agree that the time for advocacy has come upon us more > > than ever before! > > schroedix? > snoopix? > peanix? (this one makes me laugh) > blankie? > blankix? > > fuzzix? > > paulinx? > VitaminCeex? > > warmvm? > steamingvm? > > weenix? > geex? > geexooks? > wannabeex? > > berx? (not good for the U.K. -- well, it would make for a good book title: > berx for Berks.) > > ;-) > > I'm getting carried away... > > But seriously, there's a totally great name out there waiting to be discovered. > > Do you think Zip drives would have caught on as well if they had been called Bernoulli III? or FloppyXYZ? > > Dave > > Too much crazed wordplay for one night... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message