Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:19:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Let's nail some things down. Message-ID: <19981030091927.D5846@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981029173248.00996ec0@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:33:14PM -0500 References: <36385807.FEA163C0@ukonline.co.uk> <19981029101428.B25247@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810281808020.7221-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <19981029124325.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> <36385807.FEA163C0@ukonline.co.uk> <19981030084416.Z25247@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981029173248.00996ec0@genesis.ispace.com>
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On Thursday, 29 October 1998 at 17:33:14 -0500, Drew Baxter wrote: > At 08:44 AM 10/30/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 29 October 1998 at 11:56:55 +0000, Christopher Raven wrote: >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 18:10:24 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> It's too early to cast them in stone. In addition, we haven't looked >>>>>> at the third category, the "not FreeBSD, but vendor supplies >>>>>> installation aids for FreeBSD users". >>>>> >>>>> If the vendor built binaries for us and provides the install aids,then my >>>>> vote is that that is still "Designed for". >>>> >>>> Then you're not providing any incentive for people to do a true >>>> FreeBSD port. >>>> >>>>> Now that you have mentioned it. Perhaps "Designed for" is a bit >>>>> presumptuous. Any better ideas? >>>>> >>>>> "FreeBSD Native" is good but perhaps nerdy. >>>> >>>> It's an idea. >>> >>> With a picture of the daemon in indian head dress? >> >> I suspect that some ethnic minorities could get quite upset about this >> sort of thing. >> >> Greg > > That's why I said what I did.. I think sticking with the 2 for now would > be logical. That's just me. My understanding was that we should drop the "will work if you try hard enough" category. The "native" category is definitely the one we want to keep. 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-advocacy" in the body of the message
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