From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 22:34:26 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 E498916A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:34:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5025243D31 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:34:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.173.27.163 with login) by smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2005 22:34:26 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:34:24 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200502092223.01650.algould@datawok.com> <420BFDCF.1000409@tvog.net> <27788582.20050211081120@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <27788582.20050211081120@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502111434.24639.krinklyfig@spymac.com> cc: Anthony Atkielski 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: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:34:27 -0000 On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:11 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Frank J. Laszlo writes: > > Who says it has to be small? > > Business cards and letterheads say that. > > Logos are often reproduced at very small sizes, even on large > documents. They often appear in a corner or at the bottom of a page. > Logos are not used in place of cover art, but they often are a _part_ > of cover art. > > > Getting back to the point at hand, the beastie is nothing more than > > a mascot. plain and simple. But people are talking like there will > > be no more beastie representing FreeBSD. I dont think this is the > > point. > > What surprises me is that people care so much. It's the software > that's important, not the cartoon character that represents it. It > makes me wonder what sorts of priorities people have. I'd prefer > that people worry more about software quality, and less about pretty > pictures. You know, I haven't posted anything about this subject to this list itself - such discussions are probably better suited for -advocacy. In any case, I did some checking ... Hmmm, let's see, Anthony Atielski, 30 posts on this subject alone, on a tech help list. Makes you wonder what sort of priorities you have. Anyway, if you feel that way then let the thread die, or take it to -advocacy. - jt