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From: Robert Marella <hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Subject: Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't
	change Beastie to another crap logo suchas	NetBSD!!!
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On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 23:12 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 

> >
> > Why in the world should I expect to be able to vote on whether a new
> > logo is adopted or not?
> >
> 
> I will tell you exactly why and it is one of the most exciting reasons
> to use FreeBSD.
> 
<mucho snipo>

> It is EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTES ANYTHING TO FREEBSD.  You, me, anyone
> who wants to be involved in the FreeBSD Project, all you need to do
> is start contributing and YOU ARE IN IT!!!
> 
> Thus, FREEBSD BELONGS TO YOU!!  That's, right YOU!!  Your a member
> of the FreeBSD Project - you are one of the owners of the FreeBSD
> code.  That's it, simple as that.
> 
> So, of course you should have a vote.
> 
> Ted
> 
Let me be the first to nominate Ted as the ballot magistrate. He will
decide who gets to vote by how they have committed to the project. 

Unless he wants to open it up to every man, woman, and child who has
access to the internet. I guess then we wouldn't need a magistrate.

Robert