Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:44:22 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. ???? Message-ID: <200502091144.23145.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <420A5898.2010508@freebsd.org> References: <420A4781.8080002@yahoo.com.br> <420A5898.2010508@freebsd.org>
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On Wednesday 09 February 2005 10:38 am, Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote: > Ricardo Alves dos Reis wrote: > > Unfortunately, the cute FreeBSD daemon is sometimes treated with > > misunderstanding in the religious and cultural context. That's why > > The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new > > logo design. You can find the rules of the competition in this > > document. > > > > http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/announce.txt ?????? > > <sigh> So, the FreeBSD Project is giving in to the narrow-minded, > puritanical, moral minority who, despite their preachings are not > very well-informed as they don't know the difference between 'demon' > and 'daemon'. Is this a sign (or a victim perhaps?) of the "growing > conservatism sweeping Bush's America"? > > The Mozilla project had/has to put up with similar crap about it's > logo because numpties think that the red star represents Communism. > > Oh, and since we're being all Politically Correct.... > > * The logo must not exploit or offend a person's sex, race, > religion, morality, culture , nor be salacious or > pornographic. > > we should drop 'BSD' from the name because, over the years, plenty of > people have assumed that *BSD is some form of kinky sex outfit - same > problem, they don't know the difference between BSD and BDSM. > > I see that NetBSD and OpenBSD have already dropped Beastie - the > latter adopting a butt-ugly fish (the style of which implies bloated > fatware to me). Oh, I hardly see it that way. Do you think OpenBSD is "bloated fatware?" I think anyone who understands security enough to be interested in OpenBSD knows why Puffy is a blowfish. > Beastie has been the BSD symbol for nearly 17 years (based on Kirk's > copyright date of 1988) and, as far as I'm concerned it always will > be. I agree with most of what you said, but, hey, no need to slag on Puffy. I think he distinguishes OpenBSD and emphasizes its primary strength. - jt
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