From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 28 21:41:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05169 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:41:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05153 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:41:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA21237; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:11:24 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA04168; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:10:50 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981029161049.Q25247@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:10:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Licia , "Jason C. Wells" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, not-jordan-hubbard@nowhere Subject: Re: Let's nail some things down. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Licia on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:00:15PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 21:00:15 -0600, Licia wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> It's too early to cast them in stone. In addition, we haven't looked >>> at the third category, the "not FreeBSD, but vendor supplies >>> installation aids for FreeBSD users". >> >> If the vendor built binaries for us and provides the install aids,then my >> vote is that that is still "Designed for". >> >> Now that you have mentioned it. Perhaps "Designed for" is a bit >> presumptuous. Any better ideas? >> >> "FreeBSD Native" is good but perhaps nerdy. > > Perhaps to cover all three major cases, there could be three labels? > > FreeBSD Native : runs without emulation > FreeBSD Compatible : runs with emulation, no or trivial effort needed > FreeBSD Adaptible : runs with emulation, non trivial work needed A good start. At least the categories are easy to understand. We need to consider whether the words "native", "compatible" and "adaptable" create the same impression on a potential buyer as they do on us. Any other ideas? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message