From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 27 18:47:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05157 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05119 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrE-43.aei.ca [206.186.204.243]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04436; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:47:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3545351F.CA9153C7@aei.ca> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:47:11 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding FreeBSD to OS wars (for a cause...) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > There is a web page up at > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/5601/ > > which is running a "OS Wars" vote. The idea is to generate some money for > the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. You "vote" for your favorite OS by > pledging some money. The current list of OS's include MacOS, OS/2, > Windows, Linux, BeOS, JavaOS, and even AmigaOS (each represented by their > own icon, with a URL pointer to the "home" for that operating system.). > There's one additional catagory for "UNIX"... > > I thought "Well, if Linux is there then I'd be happy to donate a few > "votes" to see FreeBSD in the list too". And thus, my question. > > Is there someone who needs to approve putting up the FreeBSD icon on a web > page such as this one? I thought I remembered a web page which showed > various FreeBSD icons fit for web pages, but in a quick look thru > www.freebsd.org I couldn't find it. And then I got to thinking, maybe I'm > supposed to get advance approval for something like this anwyay. > > So, I'm not requesting that anyone here donate money, but if I'm willing to > donate some money then what icon would be the best one to use for that > page, assuming no one objects to it's usage? > > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn > Senior Systems Programmer > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.ca.freebsd.org/gallery.html Choice the more little... Notice how the Mac comunity is strong: 95 votes... I reply on advocacy@freebsd.org where it should be in discution. Not on question@freebsd.org... Malartre -- -------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.6 -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message