From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 16 8:17:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from blue.dls.net (blue.dls.net [209.242.10.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C14737B400 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:17:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from emailrob.com (175-dls801.dls.net [216.145.235.175]) by blue.dls.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2180120016 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:17:04 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C45A713.860AA45@emailrob.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:15:15 -0600 From: 'emailrob' spellberg X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: FreeBSDmall vs Daemonnews mall References: <3C459893.44485DA3@emailrob.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020116085240.01c9e3e0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > At 08:51 AM 1/16/2002, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > >What do you mean by non-profit arm? Are you talking about the foundation? > >They have nothing to do with the mall or vice-versa. The foundation > >doesn't even own the trademark for FreeBSD. > > This is something that should be corrected immediately. In November of > 2000, at BSDCon in Monterey, it was announced that the trademark > would be transferred immediately. Why was that promise broken? If one > of several competing vendors owns the trademark, it unfairly tilts the > playing field. > > --Brett Glass the idea is to eliminate refugee status of the distribution. when quality is important, control must be maintained. bring all of the intellectual property [ os, trademark, etc. ] under one roof. under this roof, there may exist one or more entities. different types of "customer" then have a reliable supplier. rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message