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To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis)
cc: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:57:46 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:11:31 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> "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.

I'm inclined to agree.  If people can't even say "I run FreeBSD!" in
public then we've somehow lost the original concept in our race to
make sure that potential for abuse is curbed.

For my perspective, I intend to take the same tack that Kirk McKusick
takes with Chuck, the BSD daemon.  If people use him reasonably and
perhaps pay Kirk the minor courtesy of mentioning it, there's no
problem.  Kirk doesn't demand that a notarized document come through
his mail slot in the next 24 hours or anything.  If someone uses the
Daemon to grace their porno site, on the other hand (I wish I could
say that this were only a hypothetical example :( ) the Kirk gets
pretty upset and he asks them to stop.  AFAIK, even then that's about
as far as it goes.  I don't think that Kirk has ever sued anyone over
such misappropriation, and I think that simply making it plain when
such misuse is happening is about the most of us will ever be able to
do.  We don't have the resources to do much else.

					Jordan