From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 17:05:57 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 2235C16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:05:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8264043D45 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:05:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1104.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D7E261C000BA for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:05:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1104.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B28D91C00094 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:05:54 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050211170554731.B28D91C00094@mwinf1104.wanadoo.fr Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:05:54 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <7710307462.20050211180554@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> References: <649200329.20050211081852@wanadoo.fr> <621dabed4fc2996ae4cb3a2929d6842c@chrononomicon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:05:57 -0000 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