From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 13 10:50:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA70614A12 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13900; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:50:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.8.5/8.6.4) with ESMTP id MAA08336; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:50:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id MAA07240; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:50:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:50:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199909131750.MAA07240@free.pcs> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: >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. Ah, yes, now I think that we've reached the core of the problem that Brett is having. If I understand him correctly, he wants to be able to leverage off the FreeBSD name. Creating a new distribution with a new name wouldn't allow him to make use of the mindshare behind the FreeBSD project, and might lead to the perception of another schism in the *BSD camp. Isn't there some way that we can come up with a labeling which would explicitly allow the various offshoots of FreeBSD to identify themselves with the project, while making it clear that they are separate efforts? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message