From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 09:05:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4514F16A40F for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 09:05:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B976743D48 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 09:05:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k4A95dx63811; Wed, 10 May 2006 02:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Beech Rintoul" , Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 02:05:39 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 In-Reply-To: <200605100041.23001.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: New FreeBSD Logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:05:42 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:beech@alaskaparadise.com] >Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:41 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC; Ted Mittelstaedt >Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Logo > > >That's all well and good, but I for one don't plan to replace >the "powered by" >beastie logo on any of my sites with that sex-toy. It would be >interesting to >see how many webmasters agree with me. > Webmasters have it easy, you get plenty of resolution on the Web and as many colors as you want for free, and you can print as many copies as you want for nothing. The real litmus test will be if they come out with stickers that people have to pay for, to see if those last as a product, and when companies print up sales literature that they have to pay for printing costs on, whether they choose the sex toy or Beastie. My guess is it will be a long, long time before you see CDROMs from anybody that have deleted Beastie and have the sex toy. The one good thing about all this nonsense is that 5 years from now when there are still hundreds of websites, marketing materials, presentations, CDROMs, and such that prominently feature Beastie, it will pretty much pull the fangs of the argument that "we need to replace Beastie as a logo because as a devil he's causing too many people to not use FreeBSD" which was the main argument that triggered the entire contest and it's sex toy result. Ted