From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 06:29:08 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 9A63C16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:29:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FAB43D45 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:29:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050216062902i9100k50mfe>; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:29:07 +0000 Message-ID: <4212E828.5050800@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:28:56 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050202) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cpghost@cordula.ws References: <420C2C33.4020607@black-star.net> <20050215030014.GA53931@fw.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20050215030014.GA53931@fw.farid-hajji.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org cc: Steve Ireland Subject: Re: please, a little sanity about the logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:29:08 -0000 cpghost@cordula.ws wrote: >There have always been a few companies that provided >a commercial version on CDs, and nobody would have any >objections that these companies use their own logos to >push their own version (or an unmodified version) of >FreeBSD into the enterprise. > "In the past, PR has been done by the cdrom companies, but their monitary incentives for doing that is now way down since cdrom sales have dropped so much over the years." -Warner Losh (Core Team) 12/28/04 I think this could be part of the reason.