From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 02:59:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5781616A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:59:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09DAD43D45 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:59:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mcd_advisory@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 55710 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Feb 2005 02:59:29 -0000 Message-ID: <20050213025929.55708.qmail@web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.248.172.15] by web30908.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:59:29 PST Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:59:29 -0800 (PST) From: Mervin McDougall To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg In-Reply-To: <420E7141.4020701@401.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-newbies Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:59:39 -0000 --- Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > > > > On Feb 12, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Roger 'Rocky' > Vetterberg wrote: > >> Maybe just the FreeBSD part and a couple of > stylized horns over it, > >> but that would mean Beastie would not be clearly > visible and I dont > >> know if I dare to suggest that. ;) > > > > > > I agree something like this... > > > > http://top.ch/sitedata/freebsd/freehorns.gif > > > > ...would be possible as well. > > > > But personally, I think FreeBSD should celebrate > some of its > > idiosyncrasies - specially the ones that are > representative of its BSD > > UNIX tradition. To professionalize FreeBSD we > would have to change its > > name before we would "have to" drop Beastie as its > logo. It's probably > > even true that FreeBSD is more associated and > recognized by its Beastie > > logo than by its name - and I'm not kidding. > > > > Totally agree, and thats why I suggest keeping > Beastie as a mascot. > Look at linux, everyone knows the linux penguin, but > that doesnt stop > RedHat, Caldera, Debian etc from having professional > looking logos. > And I think most of us agree that the reason RedHat > is more accepted > then FreeBSD in the commercial world is not due to > its superior > quality, stability or heritage, right? > Maybe their more professional looking image has > something to do with > it? ;) > > -- > R > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > how can we sit back and embrace halloween as a custom where kids dress up as all form of Un Godly creature with all companies promoting all kinds of costumes and parents willing to allow their children to enjoy that season and think it is ok but wrong for us to embrace beastie as a logo for FreeBSD. There is nothing wrong with freebsd just the way that persons wish to intepret it. We need a new advertising staff and some good PR people not a new logo __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com