From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 22 11:15:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA07753 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:15:18 -0700 Received: from mail.htp.com (mail.htp.com [199.171.4.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA07747 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:15:16 -0700 Received: from et.htp.com (et.htp.com [199.171.4.228]) by mail.htp.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA24749; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:15:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 14:15:41 -0400 Message-Id: <199508221815.OAA24749@mail.htp.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.htp.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Kim Culhan From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > >> > "Powered by FreeBSD" does not imply approval, nor should it. You're talking >> > about restricting "free" advertising. Its like saying that only skinny girls >> > can where your tee shirts. The idea is to encourage expansion, not make it >> > more work. >> >> was there a discrimination against the Hooters restaraunt chain >> recently ?? > >Yeh and I think Hooters won.. > This is different, because you have a finite number of people working in your restaurant, and you can argue that it "marketing", just like the "ladies night" issue a few years ago. But requiring authorization to use something that is designed to increase visibility will only lead to fewer people using it, and therefore less visibility. db