From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 00:42:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA18202 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 00:42:17 -0800 Received: from is1.hk.super.net (jbeukema@is1.hk.super.net [202.14.67.232]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA18190 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 00:42:14 -0800 Received: by is1.hk.super.net id AA27246 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.org); Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:41:53 +0800 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:41:53 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema To: David C Ferovick Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A "FreeBSD" Daemon In-Reply-To: <9503242047.AA17184@runner.utsa.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Same here once On Fri, 24 Mar 1995, David C Ferovick wrote: > > > > > I agree. Out of the three, I would say "NetBSD" has the nicest ring > > > to it. "FreeBSD" and "Linux" don't have that "professional" sound to > > > them. I suppose you could go around telling everyone not to judge a book > > > by its cover, but it would be easier just to come up with a nicer cover. :) > > > > I'd say we've already got far too much brand identification with the old > > name. Trying to change it now, after almost 2 years, would be hellish. > > No thank you! :-) > > > > Jordan > > > It would be hellish, but I am sure that you could gain alot from it. > I have had three different chances to run FreeBSD on systems in the past, > to support a commercial userbase, and each time I was forced to choose > NetBSD or BSDI instead, because the people involved didn't think it was > a good idea to run a OS with the word 'Free' in it when you are charging > people to use it.. I'm sure this argument is much more widespread than > just the three incidents I am talking about. > > Dave Ferovick >