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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:44:16 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk>
Cc:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Let's nail some things down.
Message-ID:  <19981030084416.Z25247@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <36385807.FEA163C0@ukonline.co.uk>; from Christopher Raven on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:56:55AM %2B0000
References:  <19981029101428.B25247@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810281808020.7221-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <19981029124325.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> <36385807.FEA163C0@ukonline.co.uk>

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On Thursday, 29 October 1998 at 11:56:55 +0000, Christopher Raven wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 18:10:24 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's too early to cast them in stone.  In addition, we haven't looked
>>>> at the third category, the "not FreeBSD, but vendor supplies
>>>> installation aids for FreeBSD users".
>>>
>>> If the vendor built binaries for us and provides the install aids,then my
>>> vote is that that is still "Designed for".
>>
>> Then you're not providing any incentive for people to do a true
>> FreeBSD port.
>>
>>> Now that you have mentioned it. Perhaps "Designed for" is a bit
>>> presumptuous. Any better ideas?
>>>
>>> "FreeBSD Native" is good but perhaps nerdy.
>>
>> It's an idea.
>
> With a picture of the daemon in indian head dress?

I suspect that some ethnic minorities could get quite upset about this
sort of thing.

Greg
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