From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 12 11:17: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DFC151EC for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02559; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:16:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd002518; Wed May 12 11:16:44 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07231; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:16:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905121816.LAA07231@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Is it ok to use the FreeBSD name in a cyberpunkish fictional story? To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:16:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: licia@o-o.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <002801be9ca0$f0ef0810$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> from "David Schwartz" at May 12, 99 10:57:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Everyone knows that you use macintoshes to fight evil. The hackers/crackers > really appreciate its GUI interface (click here to transfer virus). Didn't > you see Independence Day? Ugh. As if we can write software to automatically identify the display hardware and sound cards on machines produced by humans, let alone the ones manufactured by aliens (or Apple... same thing). Kieffer Sutherland had a NeXT machine in "Flatliners". The computer that saved that day in "Jurrasic Park" ran IRIX (favorite quote: "Hey! Iknow this! It's UNIX!"). The computer that the Bad Guys(tm) had to overcome in order to steal the goods in "Die Hard" claimed to be running "BSD 9.2" on it's graphical login screen (note to Jordan: defaulting to a graphical environment: A Good Thing(tm) for accumulating mindshare). And, of course, Keanu Reeves would never have triumphed in "The Matrix" had it not been for the FreeBSD special effects generating boxes that were on his side. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message