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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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	Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchasNetBSD!!!
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On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:38 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dick
> > Davies Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:10 PM
> > To: FreeBSD Questions
> > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo
> > suchasNetBSD!!!
> >
> > * Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> [0255 08:55]:
> > >   Yep, I was wondering how long it would take before someone
> > > figured this one out.  We know the real rea$on$ that this logo
> > > change is being contemplated, don't we.
> >
> > You seem to think you do, certainly. Why don't you ask core instead
> > of reading their minds?
>
> Why should I when Robert Watson made the following quote in Advocacy:
>
> "We'd like to get a logo we can provide to companies that are willing
> to stick it on their products as "supporting FreeBSD"
>
> Explain how this has nothing to do with money, please?
>
> Ted

I thought it referred to FreeBSD driver support in retail products.  
Sure, it means the companies will get more of my money because there 
would be more compatible hardware that's easy to identify.  It does not 
necessarily equate to money for FreeBSD developers, however.

Andrew Gould