From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 22:56:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313BB16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:56:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dexter.starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [66.93.17.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08BD43D49 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:56:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@dexter.starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by dexter.starfire.mn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id j0SMtpa31878; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:55:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from john) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:55:51 -0600 From: John To: Dave Horsfall Message-ID: <20050128165551.A31859@starfire.mn.org> References: <861537094.20050128232635@rulez.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from dave@horsfall.org on Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:47:29AM +1100 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:56:30 -0000 On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:47:29AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, DanGer wrote: > > > > No. It means "Berkeley Software Distribution". > > > > but what about: > > "**BSD is a registered trademark of Berkeley Software Design, Inc." ? > > taken from www.bsd.org > > That would be BSDI, a commercial venture who (until they were done over by > WinDriver) gave us BSD/OS. > > -- Dave > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" BSD originally meant Berkely Software Distribution, in implicit reference to the University of California at Berkeley. The term never had any legal standing, and when the BSD project shut down with 4.4-LITE (I think that was the last), it had no non-legal currency, either, so BSDI chose to register BSD as a trademark... You can hail them for doing this, as a way to protect it, or pan them for trying to coopt it - your choice. -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG