From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Aug 6 13:54:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1903D14E10 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:54:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01125; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Jamie Howard Cc: "Jasper O'Malley" , Brian McGroarty , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a product In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 13:51:18 EDT." Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 13:54:05 -0700 Message-ID: <1121.933972845@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It seems to me that it is worth the technical effort (and maybe even some > money) to get the right to use the "UNIX" brand name. I have to disagree. Since this is a licensed trademark, it would mean an *ongoing* outlay of money to use it (it's a yearly license with X/Open) and I don't see that it makes as much marketing impact as it once did, certainly not enough to justify the costs. Most people think of "Linux" before they think of "Unix" these days anyway when it comes to brand ID, and maybe we should be negotiating to use the Linux trademark instead... :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message