From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 15 16:53:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F02B37B9B5 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:53:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04378; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:52:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000315175102.03f72520@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:52:51 -0700 To: Paul Richards , Brad Knowles From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38CD8E3A.7EB4720D@originative.co.uk> References: <4.2.2.20000313111904.041e0c00@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312122651.00b1e880@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312144558.04190e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313111904.041e0c00@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313131120.041d91f0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:56 PM 3/13/2000 , Paul Richards wrote: >I've no idea what WC/BSDI's attitude will be towards the use of the BSD >mark following the merger but it would be foolish of them to allow any >more spinoffs given their aim of creating more unification. The concern is that they will allow no further use of the term "BSD" because they don't want competition. And could claim that it's being done in the name of "unification." >Actually, I think the whole point of Brett's argument is that he want's >to live with that fact as long as the rules are fair to all parties and >people actually know what they are. Exactly! --Bret To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message