From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 10 15:32: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4D637BCB7 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:31:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id AAA20523 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:31:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA23251 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:28:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: BSD Merger Announcement Date: 10 Mar 2000 23:28:52 +0100 Message-ID: <8absv4$mma$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <38C64924.FD9B7A5F@interlog.com> <38C810A4.BE0AD747@asme.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles wrote: > From Jordan's comments, BSD, Inc. is *very* well aware of how > important it is to keep a single brand image and to avoid even the > appearance of internal fracturing, I'm glad this realization is coming through on all levels. > For whatever reason, Linux can have eleventy bazillion > distributions, and yet all of them can still be viewed as "Linux", > and therefore there is no apparent internal fracturing. That is very, very simple. The Linux people only ever talk about "Linux". Distributions are only mentioned when it can't be avoided anymore. Contrary to that, the FreeBSD people have for the most part always talked about "FreeBSD", the NetBSD people about "NetBSD", the OpenBSD people about "OpenBSD". It's all in the words. I've made it a habit to simply refer to "BSD" and only be more specific when required. I've also made sure to explicitly say "Red Hat", "Debian", etc when specifically talking about features of those, rather than saying "Linux". And from what I observe in my Linux-centric environment, that is paying off. It's really simple. You can do it too. Let's practice. "What's the operating system on your machine?" "F--" "Try again." "BSD, sir!" I knew you could do it. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message