Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:43:46 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v04220800b4f25ecce482@[195.238.21.237]> References: <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003112034290.431-100000@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.2.2.20000312122651.00b1e880@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312144558.04190e80@localhost> <4.2.2.20000312160425.00b16e80@localhost>
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At 02:12 AM 3/13/2000 , Brad Knowles wrote: >At 4:30 PM -0700 2000/3/12, Brett Glass wrote: > >> This would be due to the use of the words "Red Hat" rather than the >> use of the word "Linux." In fact, Red Hat -- in response to a scandal >> involving CDs sold on eBay -- has agreed that anyone can sell their >> Linux as-is and call it Linux; they just can't call it "Red Hat." > > And you would wish that the FreeBSD team do something different?!? No; the FreeBSD Project should do exactly the same thing. Anyone should be able to call their product FreeBSD; they just could not call it "Walnut Creek FreeBSD," for instance, without the permission of Walnut Creek. >> Exactly the opposite is true. FreeBSD is starting as a "dark horse." To >> prevent MANY people from using the name is to hurt its chances to rise to >> prominence. > > Take a look at this situation again. The name of the merged company is "BSD, Inc." There is a particular flavour of a freely available version of BSD Unix called "FreeBSD". However, these are two separate and distinct issues. > > Anybody who wants to take the name "BSD" and apply it in a positive way to a product or a service will almost certainly be warmly welcomed into the family -- Just as Linus has done with the term "Linux". Not so. People will say, "Yet another BSD! This is proof that the BSD world is fragmenting." If new products are not clearly labeled as distributions of the work of one of the existing projects, they will be perceived as fragmentation. > You're equating "Linux" with "FreeBSD". This is a fallacy. No, it's an analogy. > You should instead equate "Linux" with "BSD". They are both families of closely related OSes, but with various different versions that have been created. Not so. There's a big difference. The OSes labeled "BSD" do not share a common kernel. The ones labeled "Linux" do. The ones labeled "FreeBSD" would. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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