On 3/4/07, John Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The name might mislead some people. The other Open[Project_Name] "products" are ground-up rewrites or thoroughly audited code sharing common themes such as security/stability/efficiency, freeness, and flexibility. -just my 2 cents.
Thanks for top posting. </sarcasm> The prefix Open* isn't exclusive to OpenBSD, so if there is confusion they've been dealing with it for a long time. Many other software projects exist out there with the term open in front of them, and few (none?) of them have any of the same attention to the themes you mention. DS
Tom McLaughlin wrote: > Hi, > > Sometime ago I created a FreeBSD port for OpenBSD's pdksh because of > some annoyance in our pdksh port I can't even remember today. I simply > named the port openksh since it sounded fitting and threw it on my home > page with a short blurb and links to the port and distfile. Recently > someone asked me if I would commit it to our ports tree. Before I do > so, does anyone from OpenBSD prefer I change the name? I don't know if > any developers already have the idea floating around. > > Thanks, > tom > > link: http://people.freebsd.org/~tmclaugh/files/openksh/
