From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 22 17:27: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFFD37B88B for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noslenj@swbell.net) Received: from acp.swbell.net ([216.61.57.24]) by mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FRU00DRQP9UX7@mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:25:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (noslenj@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acp.swbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00958; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:02:22 -0600 (CST envelope-from noslenj@swbell.net) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:02:22 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson Subject: Re: What's in a name? (was: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers?) In-reply-to: <38D927C1.5ACA28B3@originative.co.uk> To: Paul Richards Cc: Greg Lehey , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG 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 On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Paul Richards wrote: [snip] >Yes, FreeBSD is still Unix as far as we're all concerned but can we call >it Unix, no because a previous project structure owns the trademark >(passed around a lot I know). The analogy holds very true, while anybody >can take the code and setup another project they cannot take FreeBSD >somewhere else, just as we couldn't take Unix somewhere else. So what's the big problem with the name? If there is an AIX, we could be called CIX, or, if we really wanted to get nasty, DIX (BIX is already taken -- we could even call it Lunix, since Solaris is taken;) but it would be the same code and a number of the same people. It seems a little selfish to want to depend on a name that someone else has gone to the effort to build to recognition. No one seems interested in what _benefits_ this merger will have. Why not wait and smell the rose when it blooms? Or shoot the skunk when it sprays. Right now we're wringing our hands over assumptions. -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message