From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 10 8: 7: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1119A151ED; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:06:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA24371; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:06:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:06:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Brett Glass Cc: Jonathan Lemon , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Market share and platform support In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909213518.046fe100@localhost> 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 Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > It's likely that I need permission to use the trademark. Unless this > is already given via a blanket public announcement that says, "You may > use this trademark if..." I've seen no such announcement so far, but > if it does not exist it should. I hope to god you need permission to use the 'FreeBSD' trademark, and if Walnut Creek is the ones to fund and forward the legal bitch-slapping should you use it without permission I only hope that the effort doesn't hurt them financially and that you have to pawn your computer to cover the damages. I don't think anyone is telling you that you can't take the source and run with it. Taking the source and trying to market it as 'Ultra Mega FreeBSD 2000' would only serve to confuse public perception of the 'FreeBSD' brand, and would be, IMHO, a step back for the actual FreeBSD project. Calling yourself 'Ultra Mega BSD2000' or something and having a note that said "Based on the FreeBSD Operating System." would likely satisfy all parties. Why the hell would you want to leach on the poor PR that 'FreeBSD' has in the first place? By your noise it would be better for you to rely on your own superior marketing and PR strategies and focus them on a distinctive brand name. BrettBSD maybe? -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message