From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 09:51:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E47716A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:51:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB15F43D3F for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:51:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 2ACFA1C0009D for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:51:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 07CEE1C00097 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:51:22 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050212095123320.07CEE1C00097@mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:51:22 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1094909310.20050212105122@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <3eb7abf62bd14b74a7ce8eaa32f31efb@czv.com><420CE63B.7090509@rakhesh.com> <1c4c28d5cc6f041c3734c39c31bddecf@czv.com> <420D2837.8020702@spintech.ro> <22dcf988fa0748293ca20ae481315670@czv.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: New FreeBSD logo and website design X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:51:24 -0000 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