From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 4 01:55:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA18356 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:55:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA18342 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA15347; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:55:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA24790; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:55:20 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:55:15 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Socializing the use of "BSD" as a term Message-ID: <19990204105515.S8749@bitbox.follo.net> References: <19990203101221.H8749@bitbox.follo.net> <79af10$b9o$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <79af10$b9o$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>; from Christian Weisgerber on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:28:00PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you're talking to me, please Cc: or To: me. Otherwise, I'm as likely to not see your posting as I am to reading it (I don't read the mails coming through the mailinglists anyway near as carefully as I read those that come directly). On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:28:00PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > > 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", > > What's wrong with these? Nothing is "wrong" with them - I just think they'll hinder effective replacement of the term '*BSD' with 'BSD'. > Actually, what connotations did you have in mind? For me, 'BSD' without any annotations will point my mind at the 4.3 timeframe, CSRG, and their official releases. Other people have other associations. I think this set of associations will make it hard to get people to switch their terminology. > > besides which we do not have the trademark. > > That concerns official documents. Mostly. It would create problems for having an official position of using 'BSD' to refer to ourselves and all our siblings. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message