From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Oct 29 15:05:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08523 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:05:21 -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 PAA08510 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:05:17 -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 JAA24169; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:35:04 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA05993; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:34:59 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981030093459.F5846@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:34:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kirk McKusick Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: Use of the Daemon to promote FreeBSD? References: <19981029101109.A25247@freebie.lemis.com> <199810292252.OAA04134@flamingo.McKusick.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810292252.OAA04134@flamingo.McKusick.COM>; from Kirk McKusick on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 02:52:32PM -0800 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 Thursday, 29 October 1998 at 14:52:32 -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:11:09 +1030 > From: Greg Lehey > To: Kirk McKusick > Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list > Subject: Use of the Daemon to promote FreeBSD? > 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 > > Kirk, some people in the FreeBSD-advocacy group are planning to set up > a certification scheme for commercial software found to work with > FreeBSD. They've come up with some logos that they want to encourage > vendors to put on their shrink wrap. This would only be permissible > if the product has been found to work with FreeBSD. Do you have any > objections? You can find the current designs on > http://www.o-o.org/misc/logos.html, though I expect they'll change a > little. > > I think that the idea of having a certification program is a good > one provided that there is some teeth to it to make sure that it > really means something. Agreed. We're currently discussing that. Want to participate? 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