Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:50:18 -0400 (EDT) From: gsutter@pobox.com To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413204812.19093N-100000@mph124b.rh.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413202413.19093L-100000@mph124b.rh.psu.edu>
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Yes, yes, self-followup. <sigh> On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 gsutter@pobox.com wrote: >On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Dan Janowski wrote: >> >>Does this cause legal problems? DG? What are the >>restrictions on 'Unix'? > >I believe UNIX belongs to AT&T. We can't call it that. BSD-x86 is very >_very_ close to BSD/386, a copyright of BSDI. I doubt we'd get away >with that either. Okay, Matt pointed out to me that indeed, UNIX ain't belongin' to AT&T anymore and despite being young, I'm very out of date. He also reminded me about 386BSD, which BSDI was not involved in and apparently had no problems with. But the rest of it is right. :) >The whole name-change idea is probably unsound. Repackaging under >different names, in my mind, draws immediate comparisons to Linux, where >they have Slackware, Caldera/Red Hat, Debian, and another handful of >smaller distributions, all doing their own thing and succeeding very >well at splintering Linux. One of FreeBSD's strengths, and one of the >main reasons why I agreed to try it (instead of installing a Linux) was >the single, unified distribution, where I could get "FreeBSD", not >"Foo-Brand FreeBSD" or "Baz-Brand FreeBSD" or "Snarfnix-8088 by >FreeBSD". > >We've got a good, appropriate, descriptive name for the OS and we're >just starting to achieve significant name-recognition; let's keep >it that way. GReg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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