Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:08:15 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Plite <splite@purdue.edu> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? Message-ID: <199804141808.NAA12767@cynix.ecn.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <353398C0.5BAE7C3B@internationalschool.co.uk> from "Stuart Henderson" at Apr 14, 98 06:11:28 pm
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I believe it was Stuart Henderson who once wrote: > > David Greenman wrote: > > > > ...it would still violate the trademark. A product name like > > FreeBSD/Pro is definately not a problem, and is even (extremely) > > likely, in fact. :-) > > I was just about to suggest that before I read your message :) Why do I keep feeling deja vu all over again? (From "Alice in UNIX Land" by Lincoln Spector, Texas Computer Currents, September 1989, [a copy is at http://r62h121.res.gatech.edu/alcunix.html]) : "Well," responded the Sun Bear, "we've got to do something to make them : want to switch to UNIX." : : "Do you think," said a Woodpecker who had been busy making a hole in the : table, "that there might be a problem with the name `UNIX?' I mean, it : does sort of suggest being less than a man." : : "Maybe we should try another name, " suggested the Job Sparrow, like Brut, : or Rambo." : : "Penix," suggested a Penguin. I've considered bringing "Alice" up to date but it would only amount to a global search & replace. Nearly a decade later, and the song remains the same. Anyway, if we're trying to position FreeBSD as a server OS, how about "Servix"? No need to even bother with a trademark search on that one... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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