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At 09:01 PM 9/10/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:

>Trademarks are the levers by which schism is wrought.

They don't have to be. A sensible, published policy granting the
use of the trademark under reasonable conditions would be a Good Thing
because it would prevent the problems which beset the FreeBSD project
from recurring. It would also clear up some of the FUD which inhibits 
the release of new distributions.

--Brett Glass


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