Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:15:48 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, dyson@iquest.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 (was: Here is what I promised :-)) Message-ID: <199806260315.WAA12310@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Thu, 25 Jun 1998 18:21:09 %2B0930." <19980625182109.D356@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey writes: > On Wednesday, 24 June 1998 at 3:41:51 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:56:14PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > >> David Kelly said: [...] > >>> > >>> You're not going to call it, "FreeBSD 4.0"? ;-) > >>> > >> No, and in fact, BSD apparently won't be in the name at all. There [...] > > 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. I didn't mean to create such a stir. And certainly didn't mean that somebody should run off with anybody's name. My actual intent was to suggest G2 could be a source of good ideas for FreeBSD's future or may even be FreeBSD's future. Apparently others had that idea too. Now that a possible link between G2 and FreeBSD has mind share, its time to back off and see what happens. Wouldn't want to interfere with the release of FreeBSD 3.0. :-) As to the name G2, the current crop of PowerPC chips are known as G3, the forthcoming crop as G4. Might want to think about namespace collisions. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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