Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:42:26 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, "Jay Nelson" <jdn@acp.qiv.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, jkh@cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field Message-ID: <78576.937240946@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:14:09 MDT." <4.2.0.58.19990912145908.04af73a0@localhost>
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> In the more specific case of the FreeBSD project and creators of FreeBSD > distributions: Does it make sense to favor large companies over small ones? It makes the most sense to "favor" whichever people are doing the project the most tangible, measurable good. Perhaps if we'd all been raised in communist societies, we'd feel differently. :) In any case, since you're not talking about calling your product "FreeBSD" I have a hard time understanding the logic of this whole discussion. You're free to call a substantially derived product anything you like, just so long as that something isn't "FreeBSD" since that word is already used to describe the product exactly as it's released by the FreeBSD Project. Those who simply package it and sell it, like CheapBytes or Walnut Creek CDROM, can call the resulting product FreeBSD because it, well, is. Modify it substantially, as people like Oracle and Apple have done, and you have to call it something like "NCOS" or "OS X". None of the discussions to date have suggested that you have anything less than substantial changes in mind therefore you can call it BrettOS or something and we'll have no issue with the results. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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