Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:22:52 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Licia <licia@o-o.org>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) Message-ID: <4.1.19981028192208.009a6ee0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <19981029092408.O25247@freebie.lemis.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981028111806.11233A-100000@o-o> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810280838140.444-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981028111806.11233A-100000@o-o>
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At 09:24 AM 10/29/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Wednesday, 28 October 1998 at 11:19:33 -0600, Licia wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: >>> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Licia wrote: >>> >>>> A basic FreeBSD Compatible logo then? Perhaps similar to the "Powered By >>>> FreeBSD" logo for web pages, with the wording modified? >>> >>> This is vote number two for something similar to "Powered by". >> >> I've placed some possible examples of logos at the following urls : >> >> http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat1.jpg >> http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat2.gif >> http://www.o-o.org/fbsd-compat3.gif > >I'd go for number 3. "Certified" doesn't sound so hot to me. > > >BTW, it would make comparison easier if you'd >pack them in an .html page so they could all appear on the screen >together. > >> They are not very high quality, and would need permission from >> at least two copyright holders, > >Who's the second? I'm assuming that you don't include FreeBSD in the >list, since this is a FreeBSD effort. AFAIK the only person who needs >to give permission is Kirk McKusick. I don't expect you'd have >problems there. > >> but show what I seem to understand from this discussion. Please >> feel free to correct me :) > >I still think we need at least two distinct stickers: "Works with >FreeBSD" and "designed for FreeBSD" are a good start. Somehow we need >to encourage people to put our sticker on anything that works with >FreeBSD, and yet leave that little extra which might make them decide >to port their product directly. > >Greg >-- >See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers >finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key I dunno, I was expecting something perhaps square. That would be a pretty large label (even compressed down some) to put on a box or something like that.. The SCO OK, the Win95, The Netware, all of those have some sort of a uniform size.. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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