Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:18:19 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: supporters@lemis.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's the economy, stupid! (Was: Re: New name?) Message-ID: <19980413081819.63818@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <19980413152229.47827@jraynard.demon.co.uk>; from James Raynard on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 03:22:29PM %2B0100 References: <19980413132146.H28708@freebie.lemis.com> <199804130928.CAA03504@implode.root.com> <19980413192115.V28708@freebie.lemis.com> <19980413152229.47827@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 03:22:29PM +0100, James Raynard wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 07:21:15PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > I > > think people are somewhat overemphasizing this issue, which is not > > really important to the support issues (why isn't anybody discussing > > them?). > > Exactly. I'm amazed no-one seems to have even asked, let alone addressed > the following obvious questions (at least, they seem obvious to me): > > 1. Who are Nan Yang? > 2. What exactly are they looking for? > 3. How serious are they? > 4. What kind of customers do they have? > 5. How much time would they expect people to spend on working for them? > 6. What (if any) is the difference between working for Nan Yang and being > a contractor/consultant for a "normal" agency? > 7. What's the best way of getting in touch with them? > > Instead, we have had a discussion about what name we should put on > a hypothetical commercial release, containing some unspecified > "bonus" software that no-one appears to have actually written yet, > which has finally descended into an absurd row over whether > FreeBSD is allowed to change its name or not. > These are very good questions. As David Greenman has pointed out in other posts the name "BSD" is copyrighted by BSDI and we were given FreeBSD at the time the name BSD was copyrighted. So, as far as I can see, any more talk of changing the name is a waste of time. I would also like to know who is Nan Yang. Are they incorporated in the US? Another issue that need to be addressed is how are we going to get clients. Are they going to be calling them or are we going to be calling ISP and offering support contracts. My $0.02 Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.5 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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