From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 28 15:38:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03846 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:38:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03839 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:38:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA12556; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:37:16 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:37:16 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: Greg Lehey cc: "Jason C. Wells" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) In-Reply-To: <19981029092408.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (trimmed for brevity) On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 11:19:33 -0600, Licia wrote: > > > > I've placed some possible examples of logos at the following urls : > > > > http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat1.jpg > > http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat2.gif > > http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat3.gif > > I'd go for number 3. "Certified" doesn't sound so hot to me. > > > BTW, it would make comparison easier if you'd > pack them in an .html page so they could all appear on the screen > together. Consider it done. The page can be found at http://www.o-o.org/misc/logos.html along with the updated images > > > They are not very high quality, and would need permission from > > at least two copyright holders, > > Who's the second? I'm assuming that you don't include FreeBSD in the > list, since this is a FreeBSD effort. AFAIK the only person who needs > to give permission is Kirk McKusick. I don't expect you'd have > problems there. > The second would be the person who initially created the image on www.freebsd.org I modified to create fbsd-compat1.jpg... it would be rude to actually use and distribute that without their permission. > > but show what I seem to understand from this discussion. Please > > feel free to correct me :) > > I still think we need at least two distinct stickers: "Works with > FreeBSD" and "designed for FreeBSD" are a good start. Somehow we need > to encourage people to put our sticker on anything that works with > FreeBSD, and yet leave that little extra which might make them decide > to port their product directly. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > I have added the two current images as I understand them from the discussion... again, these are mainly to help myself envision what's being discussed, and I am not advancing these as official, authoritative, or even as "good enough to use" :) [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/ ] [ IrcNick : Licia ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Why crawl through windows when you can walk through a door? ] [ This user boycotts all Microsoft products and services ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message