Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:51:22 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD logo and website design Message-ID: <1094909310.20050212105122@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <f0ea97c63158ce84c4635a3debf783af@essenz.com> References: <3eb7abf62bd14b74a7ce8eaa32f31efb@czv.com><420CE63B.7090509@rakhesh.com> <1c4c28d5cc6f041c3734c39c31bddecf@czv.com> <420D2837.8020702@spintech.ro> <22dcf988fa0748293ca20ae481315670@czv.com> <f0ea97c63158ce84c4635a3debf783af@essenz.com>
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John Von Essen writes: > Everyone on this list obviously loves FreeBSD, but how many have been > in a position at a company, where your uncomfortable talking about the > name of your core OS. People dont think twice about putting together a > proposal for management/clients and slapping the term Solaris or Linux > around. But if you put "FreeBSD" in that visio or ppt, your boss will > have kittens. When I was at Aetna, I converted a mail cluster from > Linux to FreeBSD (for performance and security reasons of course). The > only reason why I was able to do it was because I didn't tell anyone or > document it on our asset lists! You could refer to FreeBSD vaguely as "open-source UNIX." UNIX is trademarked so you have to be careful, but were it not for this legal detail, it would indeed be UNIX (I don't know how anyone managed to trademark UNIX, anyway). And referring to it that way sounds less unsettling than calling it "FreeBSD," which sounds like something slapped together cheaply by some college students. The first time I encountered FreeBSD I didn't look into it precisely because of the name. There are zillions of free software products out there, and this sounded like just another one. But my web-hosting company was using FreeBSD for hosting, and after years of seeing FreeBSD run rock solid without even a single boot, I realized that it was serious software, no matter what it was called. -- Anthony
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