From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 15 10:26:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18278 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18117 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:25:48 GMT (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07459; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:25:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804151725.LAA07459@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:25:27 -0600 To: Das Devaraj , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: New name? In-Reply-To: References: <199804131640.KAA14472@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:44 PM 4/13/98 -0700, Das Devaraj wrote: >The FreeBSD community at large may not want to change the name, >but some enterprising souls may repackage the same thing with a >catchy name (since redistribution seems to be allowed) and make >a few bucks. Any takers on this? :-) I've thought long and hard about this. Yes, it's allowed; anyone who can get a CD-ROM pressed can sell copies. But since Walnut Creek CD-ROM does such a wonderful job of supporting and facilitating the development of FreeBSD, I'd hate to do this and then watch them start pusing Linux (the big seller) instead. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message