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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:50:38 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Distributions: Leveling the playing field 
Message-ID:  <199909131750.MAA07240@free.pcs>
In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990913164349$6380@fish.pcs>

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In article <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990913164349$6380@fish.pcs> you write:
>discussion.  You're free to call a substantially derived product
>anything you like, just so long as that something isn't "FreeBSD"
>since that word is already used to describe the product exactly as
>it's released by the FreeBSD Project.

Ah, yes, now I think that we've reached the core of the problem that
Brett is having.  If I understand him correctly, he wants to be able
to leverage off the FreeBSD name.  Creating a new distribution with 
a new name wouldn't allow him to make use of the mindshare behind the
FreeBSD project, and might lead to the perception of another schism
in the *BSD camp.

Isn't there some way that we can come up with a labeling which would
explicitly allow the various offshoots of FreeBSD to identify themselves
with the project, while making it clear that they are separate efforts?
--
Jonathan


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