Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:06:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> Subject: Re: http://www.performance-computing.com/features/9810of1.shtml Message-ID: <19981024180607.A28824@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3927.909217631.1@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 01:27:11AM -0700 References: <3927.909217631.1@time.cdrom.com>
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On Saturday, 24 October 1998 at 1:27:11 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Hmmmm. It's sort of too bad that you didn't take my edits back for > the article which was eventually published, but the artwork you used > to accompany it is an outright disaster. I'm all for competetive > comparisions with Linux or I wouldn't have written the article in the > first place, but showing a daemon outright skewering a penguin with > his pitchfork only incites the basest of emotions in many readers and > casts doubt over the entire article. If the author is willing to > stoop to cheap tactics like going after the opposition's mascot, the > logic goes, then the content must not be any better. > > Furthermore, you never gave me any inkling that such artwork might be > used and I would never have approved or submitted the article for > publication had I known you had something like this in mind. Not only > is it incompatible with my goals for FreeBSD evangelism, but such use > is also specifically prohibited by the trademark holder for the daemon > image, Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick (cc'd). Agreed in all points. > Don't get me wrong - I've got as good a sense of humor as the next > person and would probably have laughed had someone shown me such an > image in private, but for a public article like this it's simply > inappropriate in the extreme and I would greatly appreciate another, > less potentially offensive, graphic in its place. I think you're probably saying what I would "please get rid of that image, it's not too late", but the wording is not that strong. I think it should be. Maybe Kirk can send them a message saying "please remove, this infringes copyright". Nice article, BTW. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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