Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 02:22:51 +0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: Jay Nelson <noslenj@swbell.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's in a name? (was: The Merger,and what will its effects be on committers?) Message-ID: <38D97FFB.AAC44D40@originative.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003221847390.844-100000@acp.swbell.net>
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Jay Nelson wrote: > > 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. I think this has just about wandered completely off the point now. What I pointed out originally was that I thought it was silly to claim that if the foundation insisted on keeping the name, the rest of us were still free to go off and develop *FreeBSD* because we aren't. We'd be free to go off and develop some other project that produced an OS that was exactly like FreeBSD but we would not be the FreeBSD project, we would be the YetAnotherBSD project and pretty soon we'd diverge from FreeBSD, otherwise why would we have wanted to set up on our own in the first place? This isn't really what the original discussion centred around anyway, we started of debating whether comapany X was allowed to call their distribution FreeBSD if their distribution in any way diverged from the official release and what actually constituted the official release. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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