From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 08:30:53 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 ADB9016A40F for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 08:30:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DFD43D45 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 08:30:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from [192.168.54.10] (c-71-198-43-216.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.198.43.216]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20060517083050m110099q24e>; Wed, 17 May 2006 08:30:50 +0000 From: "Philip J. Koenig" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 01:30:48 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <446A7CC8.14910.31B3FF2@pjklist.ekahuna.com> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20060515085718.DBE6016A650@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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, 17 May 2006 08:31:10 -0000 Sorry to be jumping into this late. On 15 May 2006 at 8:57, "Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote: > No, you get to vote on the selection of various bits of code changes. That sounds more realistic to me than assuming committers are also the sole FreeBSD "esthetic committee" too. > But > no amount of your voting is going to instantly change the recognized logo > of FreeBSD from Beastie to the sex-toy. Ranting on questions has far more > ability to make or break use of the sex-toy logo by the FreeBSD userbase > than voting on current. I must admit that logo seemed a bit strange to me when I saw it on the website. Sorta cold and a bit too abstract for my taste. It reminds me of what Mozilla did with their dragon - removed it from the browser's splash-screen because some minority of people thought it was "demonic" or "evil" or something. So sad. I think people need to get over themselves and personally I think the "beastie" is nicely irreverent and has a palpable "personality" one can relate to, especially since you can be sure that very few "gargantuan publicly-held companies" would ever get away with using something similiar. I wonder if anyone has heard Kirk McKusick's input on this.. then again, perhaps he's a bit biased? :-)