Hi,


On 8 Apr 2001, at 1:55, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> details, he was steadfast that they would all have `Wasabi' printed in
> large letters on them.  The project is NetBSD, not Wasabi NetBSD --

I do not fully understand that. If IBM would offer to pay some runs 
of NetBSD CDs, they wanted to have "IBM" printed on them too. As 
long as the code is unchanged I would be happy to have some 
vendors in europe offering NetBSD CDs (I would even accept to 
have "LINUX" printed on them). But probably that is a marketing 
structure I do not understand.

> and I'm certainly not going to spend my own time and money to help
> advertise Wasabi.

You could also say, they spend money to help advertise NetBSD. 
That is how I understood Perry E. Metzgers "pick up the effort 
associated with NetBSD presence at shows". That did not sound 
like you should pay something for the Wasabi booth and be there to 
advertise their products. I understood that like they would pay for a 
couple of sqaremeters that you (and everybody helping you) are 
free to use for NetBSD (of course they would send people 
requesting information about NetBSD to you). So it is a NetBSD 
booth with a Wasabi poster on the wall, not a Wasabi booth with a 
NetBSD poster. But then again people used to call me naive;).

It defenitely is not acceptable that people equate NetBSD and 
Wasabi, but I have not the feeling that this happens. It is more like 
IBM and Linux.

mike