From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 12 21:36:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00597 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00581 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA07182; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:36:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804130436.WAA07182@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:36:09 -0600 To: Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: New name? Cc: FreeBSD commercial support In-Reply-To: <19980413132146.H28708@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199804130313.VAA06062@lariat.lariat.org> <199804130313.VAA06062@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:21 PM 4/13/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >Other names that were mentioned are "BSD Gold" and "BSD 2000". "Gold" would imply a premium product. Let's leave that one for some enterprising soul who wants to do with the OS what Caldera has done with Linux. As for the "2000" bit: I'd be turned off by bad associations: Berke Breathed's "Banana 2000" (Ptui! ;-), the Y2K problem, and Microsoft's product nomenclature. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message