Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:26:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> To: Brian McGroarty <BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com> Cc: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com>, freebsd-advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908061524300.57800-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> In-Reply-To: <7E67D2FFB44AD31186D40008C7333C82@high-voltage.com>
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Not sure whether anyone's brought this up yet, but... I don't think the presence of the daemon will affect usage. Linux has a penguin, and similar logos are present for each of the various distributions. It might help, but I don't think you'll ever get a consensus to ditch the daemon. It's a part of the BSD heritage. SB On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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