Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:25:11 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bsilver@chrononomicon.com (Bart Silverstrim) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Logo contest?! Message-ID: <200502142225.j1EMPDN15038@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <e96337c757612d4f7df764dc447de3ba@chrononomicon.com> from "Bart Silverstrim" at Feb 14, 2005 04:04:39 PM
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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 We have had enough noise on this for two lifetimes. If you have to indulge yourself, just go look at the last week's archive and leave us alone. ////jerry > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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