From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 12 10:59:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4122E14C12 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 10:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26946; Wed, 12 May 1999 12:59:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:59:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Licia To: David Schwartz Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is it ok to use the FreeBSD name in a cyberpunkish fictional story? In-Reply-To: <002801be9ca0$f0ef0810$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (laughs) Yes, I know, but one of the key plot points later will turn on it being an open source OS, so I'm afraid I have to deal with OS's that are actually productive and useful for my characters ;) (nothing against MacOS, just not right for me or my characters :) ) On Wed, 12 May 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > Everyone knows that you use macintoshes to fight evil. The hackers/crackers > really appreciate its GUI interface (click here to transfer virus). Didn't > you see Independence Day? > > DS > > > I'm working on a serialized story (posted on my home site) that > > has a vague > > cyberpunk feel (really just computer oriented fiction :) ) and I > > was wondering > > if it's ok to refer to FreeBSD and possibly the FreeBSD web site in it? > > > > I'd like for it to be the 'prefered operating system' of the > > protagonists, > > as well as the basis for some of their bizzare efforts that antagonize the > > primary villains :) > > > > Would anyone have any objections to this? > > [ EMail : licia@o-o.org ] [ Name : Christine (Licia) Maxwell ] [ Home : http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Hobbies : write, program, web, chat ] [ BBS : http://www.o-o.org/bbs/ ] [ Handles : Licia / LadyWolf / Sysop ] [ OS : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Profiled: finger profiled@o-o.org ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message