From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 14 8: 5:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (mavery-gw.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1347915427 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 08:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA28120 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 10:16:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905141516.KAA28120@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.44); 14 May 99 10:05:32 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.44); 14 May 99 10:05:13 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" To: "Freebsd-Advocacy" Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:05:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: The State of Illinois Vs. FreeBSD - One guy's tale. Reply-To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.10) Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 May 99, at 9:32, Ray Seals wrote: > I wanted to get custom plates for my car. I found that FreeBSD was not > taken so I sent my check into the Sec. of State. I received a call from > them this morning asking what did "FreeBSD" mean. I explained that it > dealt with computers (older lady). They told me that they were rejecting > my request. They then explained that they were rejecting it because > "FreeBSD" could be thought to mean "Free Base". > > Bummed. There is also a chance that the lady could be thought to be intelligent. Neither seems very likely, somehow. There should be an appeals process. Ask about it. Also, the little old lady has a supervisor... ask for the supervisor's name and politely go above her head. If that fails, you could ask for your next license place to be "fsck". Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message