From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 9 8:10:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46363F96 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00236; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:09:23 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAMFa4za; Wed Feb 9 09:09:21 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10587; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:09:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200002091609.JAA10587@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: new to BSD To: lynch@bsd.unix.sh (Pat Lynch) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:09:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), alanpat214@earthlink.net (Alan Burnett), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Pat Lynch" at Feb 09, 2000 11:00:45 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Contact Doug Ambrisko (ambrisko@whistle.com). He has been > > working on IBM platform certification for use with FreeBSD. > > Not that this does any good, advocacy-wise, without a > > culturally neutral logo for IBM to put on the boxes, mind you. > > Terry, > what kind of "culturally neutral" logo does this refer to, not > knowing much about business apsects of things, but sort of like a > "FreeBSD Certified" stamp? > > if this is needed, I am currently working on one piece of > "branding" involving the Daemon, that I will be sending to Kirk as > soon as I'm done with it for his approval, what kind of thing would > be needed for this specific instance? > > I think I asked this once before, but it got lost in other > conversations. A monochrome text-only logo with the requisite (R) symbol and legal release from Walnut Creek CDROM, the holders of the trademark "FreeBSD". The daemon is right out; even if he were politically correct everywhere as "non-satanic" (esp. in Central and South America, with a high population of traditional Catholics)... he has only three fingers, being a US cartoon character, and is therefore unacceptable in Japan as having potential links to the Yakuza, where cutting off a finger is a pledge of loyalty and/or an indication of repentance. Even ignoring these links, "deformity", such as polydactylism and/or missing parts is often taken as a sign of just retribution for a wrong (karma, etc.). One of the things that Whistle had to do for NTT to be able to sell InterJets was to make the agents look like normal, undeformed humans, instead of cute US style cartoon characters. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message