Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:06:50 -0500 From: John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD logo and website design Message-ID: <f0ea97c63158ce84c4635a3debf783af@essenz.com> In-Reply-To: <22dcf988fa0748293ca20ae481315670@czv.com> References: <3eb7abf62bd14b74a7ce8eaa32f31efb@czv.com><420CE63B.7090509@rakhesh.com> <1c4c28d5cc6f041c3734c39c31bddecf@czv.com> <420D2837.8020702@spintech.ro> <22dcf988fa0748293ca20ae481315670@czv.com>
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This is going to be a blast from the past, but... What was the deal with the renaming that was going on in early 2000 when version 4.0 came out. Up until then, all the CD's said "FreeBSD" then Walnut creek. The 4.0 CD set still said FreeBSD, but at the bottom of the CD graphic and jewel case cover, it just said "BSD". The CD itself said BSD, Inc. What was that all about? Does the FreeBSD org own the rights to using just the short name of "BSD" when doing promotions? Everyone on this list obviously loves FreeBSD, but how many have been in a position at a company, where your uncomfortable talking about the name of your core OS. People dont think twice about putting together a proposal for management/clients and slapping the term Solaris or Linux around. But if you put "FreeBSD" in that visio or ppt, your boss will have kittens. When I was at Aetna, I converted a mail cluster from Linux to FreeBSD (for performance and security reasons of course). The only reason why I was able to do it was because I didn't tell anyone or document it on our asset lists! I'm just stating the obvious. -john On Feb 11, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2005, at 10:48 PM, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: > >> When I looked at the "new logo" i first noticed FREE, then I noticed >> BSD. I asked myself where are the missing bars imprisoning the >> Berkley Software Daemon? >> FreeBSD is famous for it's jail mechanism. >> Unleash the Daemon :) > > Maybe we should rename the project to FreedBSD ;-) > > /czv > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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