Beastie said:When we take over the entire universe, it will be universally known simply as "The OS"
Pushrod said:I've never liked the name. It sounds funny (odd) when you say it out loud, and no one knows what it is, which makes it worse.
Freee Beee Ess Deeee.
That was a last-second change. "The System" is what I was initially thinking of, but I didn't want it to sound too political (with a rather pejorative connotation at that). :studD4rkSilver said:I think you are wrong there... They will most likely remove the 'O' in 'OS' and it is most probably going to be known as "The System".
Daemonettes looks more appropriate.cpm said:It could be "Free Beers Sandwiches and Devilettes" :e
Oh no. Are you joking?igorino said:BSoD
Berkeley Software Distribution
DDOS
Dynamic Distribution Operating System
WORM
Wide Operating Relentless Machine
recluce said:Although this will never happen, from a marketing perspective it would be great to shell out the money to license the Unix trademark. Then FreeBSD could simply be BSD Unix.
recluce said:This would make it easier to "sell" FreeBSD based projects to the business side. Even if they never heard of BSD, they have heard about Unix - and know that it is something incredibly professional...
kpedersen said:I don't know why Novell or the OpenGroup don't give FreeBSD a free UNIX certification.
I guess if everything gets a license, it devalues the certification but I don't really think many OSes are bothering with it nowadays anyway and I heard that Mac OS X isn't going to bother with it anymore.
The days where companies value UNIX certification are probably over, so now that it can't be monetized, it should probably be handed back to the rightful owners (The developers of UNIX operating systems)
zspider said:Who knows maybe they'll abandon the trademark once they can't get any more money out of it. It would really be the cherry on the cake if FreeBSD could legally be called BSD UNIX.
It could also start UWII.
johnblue said:For me, "FreeBSD - The Power To Serve" is cool, the mascot is not.
yeah, yeah I know .. flame away.
Satan said:Hey, hey, hey!! It ain't easy being the Prince of Darkness.
Savagedlight said:I much prefer this variant.
Savagedlight said:I much prefer this variant.