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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: The FreeBSD trademark.
To: jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 19:14:26 -0500 (CDT)
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        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
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> I suggest you phone the East USA coast, talk to some people at the United
> Nations, then get us under the CCITT or ISO or ... in some form, 
> perhaps listed as a `research in progress group', (thus avoiding the need
> for us to worry about standards) Just Please do not try to impose this
> FreeBSD USA Inc. on anyone outside the USA, we don't need Imperialism :-(

I agree 100% EXCEPT for the CCITT/ISO connection.

CCITT and ISO make money on sales of documentation. How long would FreeBSD
remain Free under them?

Eire sounds good to me. UK is out of the question (the UK official secrets
act is a poor precedent if one's picking places to rely on).