Date: 10 Mar 2000 23:28:52 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Merger Announcement Message-ID: <8absv4$mma$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <38C64924.FD9B7A5F@interlog.com> <38C810A4.BE0AD747@asme.org> <v04220804b4ee43cb9f62@[194.78.234.238]>
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Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> wrote: > From Jordan's comments, BSD, Inc. is *very* well aware of how > important it is to keep a single brand image and to avoid even the > appearance of internal fracturing, I'm glad this realization is coming through on all levels. > For whatever reason, Linux can have eleventy bazillion > distributions, and yet all of them can still be viewed as "Linux", > and therefore there is no apparent internal fracturing. That is very, very simple. The Linux people only ever talk about "Linux". Distributions are only mentioned when it can't be avoided anymore. Contrary to that, the FreeBSD people have for the most part always talked about "FreeBSD", the NetBSD people about "NetBSD", the OpenBSD people about "OpenBSD". It's all in the words. I've made it a habit to simply refer to "BSD" and only be more specific when required. I've also made sure to explicitly say "Red Hat", "Debian", etc when specifically talking about features of those, rather than saying "Linux". And from what I observe in my Linux-centric environment, that is paying off. It's really simple. You can do it too. Let's practice. "What's the operating system on your machine?" "F--" <whack> "Try again." "BSD, sir!" I knew you could do it. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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