Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 11:48:48 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dennis@et.htp.com, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) Message-ID: <9508231748.AA04695@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <2945.809151091@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 22, 95 09:11:31 pm
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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. The point of the requirement was to allow their pages to be linked, not to prevent someone who is really running Linux from caliming he's running BSD. Of course, anyone claiming to run BSD on an obviously (to net clients) slow and unstable box of a non-BSD flavor *would* be giving "free negative advertising". That kind of "free", no one needs. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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