From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 16:59:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B5A37BCC7 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17708; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:59:03 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000316175744.04112740@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:58:58 -0700 To: Brad Knowles , Paul Richards From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.2.20000315175102.03f72520@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313111904.041e0c00@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312122651.00b1e880@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312144558.04190e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313111904.041e0c00@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313131120.041d91f0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000315175102.03f72520@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:32 PM 3/15/2000 , Brad Knowles wrote: > I have no reason to suspect this, but if you do, then this is a > good time to bring it up. However, you should not be basing statements > or arguments on an assumption like this, which has not yet proven to be > either false or true. You simply don't know whether or not you have a > leg to stand on. The fact is, that if someone owns the trademark and doesn't make a commitment to an explicit policy, NO ONE knows whether he or she has a leg to stand on. This is known as FUD. One of the things which will promote the growth of FreeBSD and BSD UNIX in general will be to dispel all such FUD. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message