From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 08:55:03 2005 Return-Path: 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 2E31216A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:55:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B269A43D49 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:55:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j1A8t5j19025 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:55:04 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20050210055117.GA96699@keyslapper.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:55:03 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > On 02/09/05 09:45 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC sat at the > `puter and typed: > > Yes, but business is why Microsoft Windows (*) sucks old rocks. > Microsoft is in business to make money, not better software. I was > always under the impression that while the FreeBSD foundation was "in > business" to promote FreeBSD, the chief focus of the core team has > always been a better OS. Keeping Beastie is a statement of sorts that > the FreeBSD team is NOT interested in business, just their work. > > Once upon a time, a geek could get by with their idiosyncrasies > because they were obviously not interested in the power points that > the businessmen and politicians wanted. They were only interested in > their gadgetry, software, and whatever cool new technology came along. > Now, one by one, everyone's worried about "business like" images, > logos, and whatnot. > Hi Louis, Yep, I was wondering how long it would take before someone figured this one out. We know the real rea$on$ that this logo change is being contemplated, don't we. > You may be right, but I still strongly (but respectfully) disagree. > And I strongly disagree without any respect. Respectful disagreement is one of the power points that the businessmen and politicians want, it has never been a geek idiosyncracy. Ted