Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 02:08:37 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Logo Message-ID: <200605100208.38485.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEONFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEONFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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--nextPart4901456.I9crSk6eIv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 10 May 2006 01:05, you wrote: > >-----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 The most interesting time I've had with beastie was setting up servers and = a=20 website for a Baptist org here in Alaska. I put beastie on the site thinkin= g=20 it would never be approved. They were seeking donations and were very=20 sensitive about the site's image. Not only did the clergy approve the site= =20 with the "powered by" logo, they thought beastie was "cute".=20 Even after several irate emails about displaying the "devil" on a church si= te,=20 the logo remained. It was decided that several narrow minded people did not= =20 warrant removing it. I didn't even have to explain what a daemon is. Several months later the site won an award at one of their national=20 conventions. The plaque featured a screen shot of the front page complete=20 with beastie! If people are refraining from using FreeBSD because of beastie (which I don= 't=20 believe), they really need to just grow up. If the Baptists don't have any= =20 problem with him, I can't imagine anyone else objecting. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart4901456.I9crSk6eIv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEYbump5D0B1NlT4URAv9JAJwM21ezTOIe25uzPaM/ogCtu5JE4wCffasg 3tNRmqDKqc/+LVWQTt2/fTI= =/2dT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4901456.I9crSk6eIv--
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