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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...

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