From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 3 15:53:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20451 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20432; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:53:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA02398; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:23:42 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id KAA63546; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:23:40 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:23:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Eivind Eklund Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Socializing the use of "BSD" as a term Message-ID: <19990204102339.M1179@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990203101221.H8749@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990203101221.H8749@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:12:21AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 3 February 1999 at 10:12:21 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 07:20:58PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: >> I read the Daemon News article about perceived splintering among the BSD >> camps. I have once posted usenet asking why we don't join them all >> together. I eventually learned that there is more than enough room on the >> net for everyone. >> >> I liked the editorial about how "Linux" is just Linux regardless of what >> CD it came from. I wonder what ye all say about starting a socializing >> process by which we all refer to FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, and NetBSD as >> just "BSD" except where it is needed to differentiate. > > I don't think that will work - too many connotations to "BSD", besides > which we do not have the trademark. However, it is common to refer to > the collective as "*BSD". I called it BSD in my article in SunWorld (http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd.html). Nobody commented on it being inappropriate. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message