Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 11:52:36 -0500 From: cliff ainsworth III <cliff@cliffsworld.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971103115236.00c4819c@mail.internexus.net> In-Reply-To: <8519.878547564@time.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Mon, 03 Nov 1997 18:32:00 %2B1030." <19971103183200.43578@lemis.com>
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Just a thought.... Then why don't we go with the "FreeBSD....the Power to Serve" (unless that one has been taken) its short, professional sounding and powerful. Which is what FreeBSD is from a concept and functional standpoint. And something the .org would like to market itself to the rest of the computing community as. All the submissions have been great. But if there a trade show, I am guessing it has to be a bit toned down and not a takeoff on other slogans, its too easy to considered non-professional with a shot at somebody else's slogan. However, its those funny slogans (usually the best ones) that are great for the other shows such as Def-Con and the H.O.P.E. cons where the other professionals show up. If anybody caught this months BOOT magazine. We all just took a hit. In there article about windows alternative O/Ses. They rated a number of the them. With Linux being the hard core original radical hacker O/S. Linux was also shipped on this months cd-rom. Wouldn't it have been nice if they shipped FreeBSD instead. That would have been a great boost for all of us. The quote was something like "the free unix community is looked upon as a group of radical commie something or 'nothers" I cannot remember the exact sentence. And we certainly weren't being put on any pedestal. (linux included). FreeBSD was mentioned only once as part of a sentence. Linux, Open DOS, Be, Rhapsody, OS/2 all got half page reviews. Personally, I think BOOT is more windoze slanted because of its gaming type articles. For trade shows. I think we should keep it short simple and professional. We have a lot of corporate bureaucracy to overcome. For the rest of us....keep it fun >> Do we have to limit ourselves to one slogan? I agree it (they) should >> be short, but there's no reason always to use the same one. For > >Not at all, but it's also not likely that we'll have many >opportunities for doing new banners in the future and we're probably >best off settling on one slogan for there, perhaps using some of the >others at trade shows and such. see ya!!! -cliff /=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\ <http://www.cliffsworld.com><http://www.openthrottle.com>; PGP v5.0 public key <http://www.cliffsworld.com/flash>; "This is what I get for using humans.... Now wait a minute, I wrote you........ I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then" -Tron 1982 \=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=/
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