From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Mar 3 3:14:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from postman.bayarea.net (postman.bayarea.net [205.219.84.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A787214F04; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Dave@Yost.com) Received: from [205.219.69.138] (205-219-69-138.bayarea.net [205.219.69.138]) by postman.bayarea.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA05041; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:14:18 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Sender: dayost@mail.bayarea.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <36DD15A7.DB479EDB@kryptokom.de> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:13:58 -0800 To: eT From: Dave Yost Subject: Re: what's in a name? Cc: FreeBSD Chat , FreeBSD Advocacy Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:57 AM +0100 1999-03-03, eT wrote: > you know, this whole lin*x thing has me baffled. ... i am wondering > why linux has a larger user/suport base in the first place? could it be t= hat > the word linux just 'sounds' more like a friendly operating system than > FreeBSD? and that because of this new users are more susceptible to > using it? Yes! Linux is warm and fuzzy, like Linus, the kid with the fuzzy blanket. = FreeBSD is techie and acrinomious, acronymical. (Yes, I know, there will= be a chorus of fans who like it to sound techie.) And it sounds like= freebie, which has the connotation of el cheapo marketing. > is linux perhaps a more 'marketable' name than FreeBSD? Absolutely. > why not let's change the name FreeBSD to some variant > of linux? i agree that the time for advocacy has come upon us more > than ever before! schroedix? snoopix? peanix? (this one makes me laugh) blankie? blankix? fuzzix? paulinx? VitaminCeex? warmvm? steamingvm? weenix? geex? geexooks? wannabeex? berx? (not good for the U.K. -- well, it would make for a good book title: berx for Berks.) ;-) I'm getting carried away... But seriously, there's a totally great name out there waiting to be discover= ed. Do you think Zip drives would have caught on as well if they had been called= Bernoulli III? or FloppyXYZ? Dave Too much crazed wordplay for one night... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message