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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:35:15 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Rebranding FreeBSD
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On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:13:19AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 02:22:02AM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > I think this would be a good idea.  However, there is only one way I
> > think it might acutally work in practice:
> > 
> > (1) The core team, in private, decide on a new name.  This can be done
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >     through any means - I believe personal combat is the most viable
> >     one, but e-mail might be easier to arrange.
> 
> If you want to sell to the Youth market, I would suggest FurBSD.  We may
> well need to vamp our IR drivers and include a speech synthesis module
> to pull this one off.
> 
> A brightly coloured box and a "limiting" campaign would also work
> wonders.

Thanks for proving my point.  :)

Eivind.


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