From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 3 13:50:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29362 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29331 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id WAA15442 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:50:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m1089q7-000WyYC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:28:03 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Socializing the use of "BSD" as a term Date: 3 Feb 1999 22:28:00 +0100 Message-ID: <79af10$b9o$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19990203101221.H8749@bitbox.follo.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eivind Eklund wrote: > > I wonder what ye all say about starting a socializing process by > > which we all refer to FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, and NetBSD as just > > "BSD" except where it is needed to differentiate. > > I don't think that will work - too many connotations to "BSD", What's wrong with these? Actually, what connotations did you have in mind? > besides which we do not have the trademark. That concerns official documents. > However, it is common to refer to the collective as "*BSD". Which reinforces the impression that BSD is factionalized. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de carpe librum: books 'n' reviews To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message