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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:34:59 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
Cc:        FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Use of the Daemon to promote FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <19981030093459.F5846@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810292252.OAA04134@flamingo.McKusick.COM>; from Kirk McKusick on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 02:52:32PM -0800
References:  <19981029101109.A25247@freebie.lemis.com> <199810292252.OAA04134@flamingo.McKusick.COM>

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On Thursday, 29 October 1998 at 14:52:32 -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> 	Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:11:09 +1030
> 	From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
> 	To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
> 	Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.org>
> 	Subject: Use of the Daemon to promote FreeBSD?
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> 	Kirk, some people in the FreeBSD-advocacy group are planning to set up
> 	a certification scheme for commercial software found to work with
> 	FreeBSD.  They've come up with some logos that they want to encourage
> 	vendors to put on their shrink wrap.  This would only be permissible
> 	if the product has been found to work with FreeBSD.  Do you have any
> 	objections?  You can find the current designs on
> 	http://www.o-o.org/misc/logos.html, though I expect they'll change a
> 	little.
>
> I think that the idea of having a certification program is a good
> one provided that there is some teeth to it to make sure that it
> really means something.

Agreed.  We're currently discussing that.  Want to participate?

Greg
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