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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD social event Sept. 2/3
Date: 14 Aug 1995 14:37:39 +0200
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Woody Jin <wjin@hermes.cs.uh.edu> wrote:

>I suggest that the name FreeBSD be changed to a better one.

This has already been discussed on the -hackers list.  The name won't
change, sorry for your argumentation.  It did already become sort of a
trademark, changing its name would not be a Good Thing tm.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)