From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 5 13:56:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07781 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07776 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:56:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.21]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4BA; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:55:43 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 22:59:36 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Licia Subject: Re: FreeBSD Branding project names Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Nov-98 Licia wrote: >> > I'm sorry, I don't seem to understand your question. What is the > connection > between open source and the process of labeling software and hardware which > does or can be made to run under FreeBSD? Is the labeling to be withheld > from any proprietary or closed source material that fits the other > criteria? That Open Source and in a way an open project such as FreeBSD and then labeling software with terms such as 'Designed for FreeBSD' might tend to Microsoft like practices... Just in my opinion offcourse... I think that terms that focus on the openess of FreeBSD and it's associated packages might be a better idea... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message