Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:23:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Socializing the use of "BSD" as a term Message-ID: <19990204102339.M1179@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990203101221.H8749@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:12:21AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902021916080.28113-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <19990203101221.H8749@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Wednesday, 3 February 1999 at 10:12:21 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 07:20:58PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: >> I read the Daemon News article about perceived splintering among the BSD >> camps. I have once posted usenet asking why we don't join them all >> together. I eventually learned that there is more than enough room on the >> net for everyone. >> >> I liked the editorial about how "Linux" is just Linux regardless of what >> CD it came from. I wonder what ye all say about starting a socializing >> process by which we all refer to FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, and NetBSD as >> just "BSD" except where it is needed to differentiate. > > I don't think that will work - too many connotations to "BSD", besides > which we do not have the trademark. However, it is common to refer to > the collective as "*BSD". I called it BSD in my article in SunWorld (http://www.sunworld.com/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd.html). Nobody commented on it being inappropriate. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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