From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 5 14:34:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11782 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11775 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:34:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.21]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5E52; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:33:49 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:37:42 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "Jason C. Wells" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Branding project names Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Nov-98 Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >>That Open Source and in a way an open project such as FreeBSD and then >>labeling software with terms such as 'Designed for FreeBSD' might tend to >>Microsoft like practices... Just in my opinion offcourse... >> >>I think that terms that focus on the openess of FreeBSD and it's associated >>packages might be a better idea... > > You are a bit late to the table. Nothing in this discussion compromises > FreeBSD's commitment to openness. That might account for it ;) > This idea is to help users now what works with FreeBSD and to help vendors > be recognized as providing software or hardware that is useful with > FreeBSD. ok, logical step > If all goes well, people will eventually look for a little daemon on a box > or a website and immmediately recognize that they can use this product on > their FreeBSD box. Icky... Although the goal may be noble, it's too MS-like IMHO... > It might be to Kirk McKusick's chagrin, maybe people will come to know and > love "Chuck." Heh, I know one thing, want to scare away non-US people using FreeBSD? Call him "Chuck" ;) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message