Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:04:39 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Martin Ibert <martin@ibert.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Logo contest?! Message-ID: <e96337c757612d4f7df764dc447de3ba@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <421111A3.9040302@ibert.com> References: <421111A3.9040302@ibert.com>
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On Feb 14, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Martin Ibert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm at a loss about whom to contact, since the PR slot on the contacts > page only says "seat open". So I tried "questions". > > I've read on slashdot that you entertain the notion of running a > FreeBSD logo contest. As a long-time user of FreeBSD, both > professionally and privately, I seriously question the wisdom of doing > so. > > For us old-timers in the IT field, the Beastie logo has always been a > reassuring point of reference. BSD code has been renowned for being > rock-solid, brilliantly engineered, and all that has been symbolized > by the daemon logo. > > But alas! All your sibling projects that I am aware of have chickened > out and chosen some other imagery as their logo (NetBSD, the faceless > banner; OpenBSD, the fat fish; Dragonfly, what choice did they have?). > You are the last one standing, the carrier of the flag. > > Please, don't chicken out like the others. Carry Chuck, the Beastie, > forward into the new millennium, as a reassuring presence that > excellence in coding is still alive and kicking (or be it with > sneakers). Dude, here's a can of worms. Do with it what you will. -Bart
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