Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 13:08 -0600 From: "Brian McGroarty" <BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: "freebsd-advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Message-ID: <7E67D2FFB44AD31186D40008C7333C82@high-voltage.com>
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I'm not reacting to the supposed satanic tie. I could care less about that. What I'm reacting to is that the silly cartoon character makes the packaging look like Reader Rabbit, not a mature operating system product. Discounting those already familiar with FreeBSD, if the intent is to sell this OS to parents and Barney fans, nobody needs to change a thing about the artwork. I didn't realize the UNIX trademark was -still- unavailable to FreeBSD. That's painful and silly. I can't think of a modern OS that deserves the label more. -----Original Message----- From: Jasper O'Malley [mailto:jooji@webnology.com] Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:38 AM To: Brian McGroarty Cc: freebsd-advocacy Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Barring a massive shift in the alignment of the planets, there's absolutely no chance that the BSD Daemon will disappear from the cover of the FreeBSD CD-ROM distributions. I'd almost be willing to say most people in the project are willing to risk the loss of market share to avoid playing to the ignorant masses that immediately identify the daemon with the Christian image of Satan and choose not to buy as a result. FWIW, FreeBSD can't use the name UNIX anywhere. It's a trademark owned by the X/Open Group (unless they've sold it to someone else at this point). To use the name, an operating system needs to meet some arbitrary standard of what a "UNIX" is, and the distributors need to pay an obscene licensing fee. I like the rest of your ideas, though. I've always felt strongly that we'll need a boxed product someday. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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