From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 12 11:25:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0FD815304 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:25:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27107; Wed, 12 May 1999 13:25:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:25:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Licia To: Terry Lambert Cc: davids@webmaster.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it ok to use the FreeBSD name in a cyberpunkish fictional In-Reply-To: <199905121818.LAA07279@usr08.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (chuckles) I'm not real sure on the future thing yet. I'm thinking more like "this is now, just...different from our reality" :) I'm not planning really on using anything abnormally advanced, or completely impossible in the story :) Hmmm porting FreeBSD to an IMac... I wonder how much efforts like MacOS X will encourage such a concept :) On Wed, 12 May 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > (laughs) Yes, I know, but one of the key plot points later will turn on it > > being an open source OS, so I'm afraid I have to deal with OS's that are > > actually productive and useful for my characters ;) > > > > (nothing against MacOS, just not right for me or my characters :) ) > > Could be FreeBSD on an iMac -- this is, after all, set in the near > future, right? Maybe you'll encourage a port. 8-). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > [ EMail : licia@o-o.org ] [ Name : Christine (Licia) Maxwell ] [ Home : http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Hobbies : write, program, web, chat ] [ BBS : http://www.o-o.org/bbs/ ] [ Handles : Licia / LadyWolf / Sysop ] [ OS : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Profiled: finger profiled@o-o.org ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message