Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:08:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, dyson@iquest.net, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 (was: Here is what I promised :-)) Message-ID: <19980626090805.Y356@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980625111122.33234@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 11:11:22AM %2B0200 References: <199806230204.VAA10715@nospam.hiwaay.net> <199806231756.MAA19966@dyson.iquest.net> <19980624034151.12579@follo.net> <19980625182109.D356@freebie.lemis.com> <19980625111122.33234@follo.net>
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On Thursday, 25 June 1998 at 11:11:22 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 06:21:09PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> John says categorically "no" to it being called FreeBSD 4.0. This >>> isn't something I'd do - this is an open option, but one which I don't >>> consider too likely. >> >> I would consider it rude in the extreme to use somebody else's name >> for your new product. I can understand why John is so emphatic. The >> software may be free, but the name has certain bindings. > > You're misunderstanding me, I think. I'm saying that the software > will be available for FreeBSD to adopt if the FreeBSD project at some > time consider it a better solution than continuing from the > then-present FreeBSD kernel codebase (or they can adopt core parts > of the G2 kernel and re-intergrate the non-core parts against that, or > whatever) then that is an option that will be available. Indeed, that's not what I understood. I don't have any problem with what you describe now. > I'm _not_ suggesting that the "G2 project" will call G2 "FreeBSD 4.0". > What is called "FreeBSD x.x" is up to The FreeBSD Project and FreeBSD, > Inc (which one would hope will stay in synch on the matter :-) Right. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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