From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 21:04:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A75316A4D1 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:04:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F4F43D46 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:04:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C339F354C28; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:04:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <421111A3.9040302@ibert.com> References: <421111A3.9040302@ibert.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:04:39 -0500 To: Martin Ibert X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Logo contest?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:04:39 -0000 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