From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 14 20: 0:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tok.qiv.com (tok.qiv.com [205.238.142.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146F115668 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (MailHost/Current) with UUCP id WAA94074; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:00:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA01754; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:48:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:48:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay Nelson To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good News! Commercial Backing For FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199909150146.SAA09592@usr06.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: [snip] >Brett wants a more active commercial advocacy than this. For this >to be possible, he has to proclaim from the rooftops that his >product uses FreeBSD (perhaps even that his putative product is >a FreeBSD distribution: a "WhiteHat" to Linux's "RedHat"). Hmm... WhiteHat sounds like a good "marketing" angle. That may be the concept that distinguishes us from the rabble. You're arguments are sound. I think, though, that one of the intellectual property rights of the FreeBSD trade mark is how that mark is perceived in the world at large. It isn't clear to me what the ultimate desired perception is likely to be. That the discussion has reached this level suggests that the project has reached the mass where a decision and a clear statement needs to be made. [snip] >Do you want to see FreeBSD mentions in advertisements for commercial >products in print, radio, television, etc. advertising? Then you >need to indemnify the people who are willing to pay for this, to >alleviate their risk. This is the $64,000 question. I don't think the latter follows the first. -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message