Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:05:54 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <7710307462.20050211180554@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> References: <p06200708be315f521112@[128.113.24.47]> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEFLFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com>
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Bart Silverstrim writes: > People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because > Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a > contest for a new logo? Beastie isn't a logo. There is no logo for FreeBSD at the moment. Creating one is probably a good idea. > Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would > be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Overall, no. But some business owners are stupid. A more likely problem is that the devil-worship aspect of Beastie might prevent religiously fanatic potential customers from considering the OS in the first place, thus making it impossible to get a foot in the door. Once someone knows something about the operating system, I doubt that Beastie makes any difference, even among highly religious people. > Would you care if a business were that dumb...would you actually > *want* them using it? They could be dumb in that way, but still smart in IT. There's certainly no shortage of people in that category. > Windows' logo isn't even a logo. It's a flag of a window pane falling > apart in the breeze. It meets the criteria for a logo. > Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not > by commercial matters, suddenly gain a marketing department that is > trying to steer FreeBSD into the business sector? Is FreeBSD starting > to have marketing dictate technology instead of technology dictate > marketing? Would you prefer that FreeBSD remain the best kept secret on the Web? It's a good operating system ... why not promote it? It's better than Linux. It would be nice to see a technically superior product actually win, for once. -- Anthony
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