From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 11 17: 0:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870E14828 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:59:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA10087; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:59:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAMqayJt; Fri Feb 11 17:59:23 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA28777; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:59:24 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200002120059.RAA28777@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: new to BSD To: lynch@bsd.unix.sh (Pat Lynch) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:59:23 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), alanpat214@earthlink.net (Alan Burnett), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Pat Lynch" at Feb 09, 2000 11:42:25 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pat Lynch wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > > At 09:00 AM 2/9/2000 , Pat Lynch wrote: > > >Terry, > > > what kind of "culturally neutral" logo does this refer to, not > > >knowing much about business apsects of things, but sort of like a "FreeBSD > > >Certified" stamp? > > > > I'm not sure, but my guess is that he means something without the daemon. > > You can't sell ANYTHING with such a label -- even hot sauce! -- in Islamic > > countries. In fact, for those countries you're pretty much limited to > > geometric patterns and letters. > > that works for me, thats why I asked. I didn't get Pat's question in my mailbox. That's precidely the reason. There are entire departments in IBM whose sole job is to ensure world-wide inoffensiveness. Not a bad idea, considering their results. The ideal logo would be something that could be silk-screened on a brown cardboard box, and could be reduced and not lose clarity. e.g. a small inverse box with text: ,---------. | FreeBSD | | Ready!@ | `---------' With the "@" being the little trademark symbol, but that's just me doing graphic design in ASCII art. There would need to be a definition of terms and conditions of use that was acceptable (e.g. filing of unofficial self-certification that there were drivers for all hardware components in FreeBSD on the FreeBSD web site or something like that) plus all the legal mumbo-jumbo to keep everyone happy with rights to the mark, etc., in terms of paperwork as a result of the filing, etc. (or something like that). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message