From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 05:59:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA18646 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 05:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18637 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:58:57 GMT (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-209.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.209]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA34678; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:58:54 GMT Message-ID: <35320BF8.37BDE306@ibm.net> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 05:58:32 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New name? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jason C. Wells wrote: > > I happen to like FreeBSD as I consider Free to mean freedom and not > necessarily "with out cost". I concede that this may not be so with the > suits. > > If there is a name change, let the name of a specific product change. I > think any name change to the organization at large should NOT occur. > FreeBSD Inc should remain FreeBSD Inc. > I second this. FreeBSD means a lot to me as what it is. If you want to make a corporate version, rename that, but never take the effort away from FreeBSD. That's what scares me about all of these threads: splintering. > Consider the following "box" products and there titles. These all > display the BSD pedigree. They all convey a meaning. > > BSD Webserver - runs with apache out of the box > BSD Fileserver - runs with samba right out of the box > BSD Firewall - runs ipfw or the like right out of the box > BSD Nameserver - runs BIND right out of the box > BSD Complete Server - Does all of the above > > We have all of these technologies already in our coffers. This is not a bad idea, but add 'FreeBSD Personal' for the home users. Runs X, Mozilla, and Apache, has Staroffice installed, etc. Add 'FreeBSD University' for MSCS students... > We could include existing O'Reilly and Lehey Megapublications > Incorporates (or SSC in Sambas case) documentation in a box set. Now _that_ would get expensive! I already have most of them, and there's a lot of ORA BSD/GNU books, not to mention A-W! Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message