Can FreeBSD Grow Large?

[Astrodog]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:06:30 -0600, Nikolas Britton
<freebsd at nbritton.org> wrote:
> Astrodog wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:32:59 -0600, Nikolas Britton
> ><freebsd at nbritton.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Julian Stacey wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Presumably that includes some who hold commit privs mainly for the
> >>>freebsd.org web site.
> >>>
> >>>It's tedious though, how much irrelevant hot air has been dumped
> >>>onto advocacy@ Re. logo preferences, considering we won't get to vote !
> >>> - Apparently commiters will vote;  Presumably advocacy@ will not.
> >>> - Commiters are on the commit list, & current@,
> >>>   I guess just a low percentage of advocacy@ are committers.
> >>> - Most commiters will probably ignore advocacy@ when they vote.
> >>>Deduction: people with logo preferences should contact commiters
> >>>who will vote, not this advocacy@ list that likely includes few voters.
> >>>
> >>>Readers of advocacy@ have limited choices:
> >>> - Face reality, realise logo preference on advocacy@ is hot air, Or ...
> >>> - Do a load of send-pr's & be individually invited to be a commiter to
> >>>   src/ ports/ doc/ or www/ who can vote, Or ...
> >>> - Agitate for votes for advocacy@ members (little chance I guess), Or ...
> >>> - Wait for commiters (who will ignore advocacy@) to choose Their logo,
> >>>   then advocacy@ individuals can ignore or include logo on non
> >>>   freebsd.org controlled BSD advocacy sites & events that advocacy@
> >>>   readers organise.
> >>>
> >>>Best skip the irrelevant logo debates where our views are Not wanted.
> >>>Best be more constructive, & discuss what we Can do: eg collecting
> >>>content for web sites to promote business adopting BSD etc.  Harvesting
> >>>facts such as (paraphrasing) ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Now that you got me thinking about it... There is no reason why a group
> >>of us (I'll help) couldn't fork the entire FreeBSD website, doc, etc.
> >>projects and redo or create everything thats needed for a better
> >>Image/PR etc. Then just point the download links to the freebsd servers.
> >>This way we can just side step all the bullshit and resistance where
> >>getting. We could then merge the projects when they finally see the
> >>light. If we really wanted to we could just rebrand the entire FreeBSD
> >>project, having are own core/committers of web designers,
> >>writes/editors, marketing and business people :-).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I suspect that would not play really well with most FreeBSD users.
> >
> 
> Thats the whole point ;-)
> 

What is effectively a full fork, entirely for marketing purposes,
without altering code, of a BSD-licensed product, seems like a good
way to irritate developers too. I could run an s/FreeBSD/AstrodogBSD,
release closed source, and be entirely within the license, however, I
suspect that if I got any credit for my.... "Achievement", I'd have
quite a few spurned developers, who wouldn't be real responsive to my
PRs... not that I'd blame them.

--- Harrison Grundy