Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:32:09 -0400 From: "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com> To: "reflex@rotten.com" <reflex@rotten.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD logo Message-ID: <f2c91f770605110532ta36c814me0930d5c38a52b95@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060511102542.10576.qmail@omerta.atomics.org> References: <20060511102542.10576.qmail@omerta.atomics.org>
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Why, oh why, would you post this? So help me to understand...The FreeBSD Project takes great effort in not only producing a truly _great_ operating system, trademarked as being fast, robust, stable and secure, provides it to the world for _free_, but also takes on the additional chore of attempting to promote its growth in the corporate market by introducing a new logo...and then some, all for the community. And your repayment is to aid in these, now, endless rants of verbal bashing of the Project's logo, which had an obvious goal of gaining wider popularity among busnesses for the purposes of making it bigger and better for, yes, _you_ and every other one of its users. Maybe I'm going out on a limb here, and maybe I'm solo dangling out there on it, but I feel a need to say something in defense. They spent much valued donation money for the logo and in legal fees, I'm sure, to obtain it, so I would assume (and hope) it's here to stay. Furthermore, by continuing to post threads like this you (and others) are hardly contributing to the Project (or this list) and, in fact, are doing the exact opposite - you are attempting to destroy the new logo's image by imaturely calling it a "sex toy" and in turn are slowly taking away from those precious dollars put into aquiring it. Maybe it's not the greatest logo, but, regardless, the logo doesn't affect the code. Try to keep that in mind. FreeBSD is a gift. And anyone who doesn't see that should take another look at Microsoft's pricing options for a simple Home edition of XP (now $99, five years after its initial release). Please do the community a favor: Just say thanks and move along. **Of course, this was not aimed at the general community, but more specifically at the folks wasting everyone's inbox space the past few days with this nonsense.** -David On 5/11/06, reflex@rotten.com < reflex@rotten.com> wrote: > Oh my gosh, > > I thought people were exagerating about the sextoy logo, but after some l= ate > night research i found this, and was frankly disgusted. > > http://www.toy-company.co.uk/index.html?target=3Dp_1876.html&lang=3Den-= gb > > It's like Linux having a midget in a PVC Nun outfit and calling him "Fux = the > Penguin". > > Best of luck, > > > reflex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" >
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