From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 17:26:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F6216A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:26:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from timgreeningjackson@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE9743D68 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:26:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from timgreeningjackson@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so243064uge for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:26:53 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:to:subject:date:organization:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:in-reply-to:x-mimeole:thread-index:from:message-id; b=mzX1Fo4me5ivnq0nFgYGN9lFnkiGoVON5GwKVZbDEbT1bUTXkTi+ByDt7R54G7NsBVXyc53k+ShVhPrHTHPg+2K1kooNF5c57Lcbs09KjKgQnQHKQncf/jMUlA2AMKqsu6otahqAyItyKiYCKz0vwV+dcrm7k0jvY9KfUhw7Hvo= Received: by 10.66.218.15 with SMTP id q15mr3121722ugg; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:26:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from tordella ( [213.106.189.79]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id u1sm9945852uge.2006.01.05.09.26.21; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:26:45 -0800 (PST) To: Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:26:22 -0000 Organization: Shellike Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <48233.10.201.0.200.1136416836.squirrel@goulphar.roullier.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Thread-Index: AcYRix/nzs0NLzYbRy+wVZWyUtXyKgAkW73A From: Tim Greening-Jackson Message-ID: <43bd56d5.7f1bd5bf.6be7.ffffa22e@mx.gmail.com> Subject: RE: New logo and business acceptance X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:26:58 -0000 Hey Christophe! I hate to say it, but a logo is exactly the sort of superficial nonsense that would help. You would be amazed how a lot of decision-makers think (I speak as one who has spent several years working for various marketing departments). Years ago I knew that DEC were doomed when they announced with great fanfare that they had changed their logo from purple to blue (or was it the other way round) because blue was a "business to business color". If logos, straplines etc. can sell all the products we don't need, think what they could do to FreeBSD ;). Tim Manchester, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > advocacy@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christophe RAMON > Sent: 04 January 2006 23:21 > To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: New logo and business acceptance > > I read that "A new logo for FreeBSD should make the product more > acceptable fo business purposes". Do IT professionals really choose an OS > (or not) partly because of its logo ? Should ORACLE (and others) be more > interested in porting their products to FreeBSD when beastie leaves the > scene ? > I think it is dangerous (at least for the survival of our favorite mascot > !) to have a logo (the result of the contest) and a mascot (good old > beastie) at the same time ... Shouldn't FreeBSD community keep beastie as > the mascot and "FreeBSD" (written in whatever style or police, like > ORACLE, IBM and so many others do) for its logo ? > Hide the devil if it helps FreeBSD advocacy, but don't kill it ! > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"