Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:22:10 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beastie/ how about Mozilla? Message-ID: <41AB9302.9050803@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <41AB6F4F.4050908@freebsd.org> References: <200411291819.iATIJkf5027124@realtime.exit.com> <41AB6F4F.4050908@freebsd.org>
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Scott Long wrote:
> Frank Mayhar wrote:
>
>> Jon Noack wrote:
> [Beasty-Bikeshed]
I'll just cut right to end of the bikeshed:
_Screw_ the mascot. In fact, screw all the mascots (plural). This is a free
software project. FreeBSD can do with ANY logo and ANY mascot, and it could
just as well do WITHOUT any logo and any mascot. Beasty is utterly irrelevant.
So is Tux, or the OpenDarwin mascot or the OpenBSD Blowfish or the NetBSD
Beastypile^W Flag.
The complaints of people being offended or annoyed by whatever mascot and logo
we have are also utterly irrelevant. It's all open-source, you can easily
patch out anything you don't like.
However, things start to become ugly when utterly irrelevant complaints about
utterly irrelevant logos make committers disable USEFUL functionality, like
the boot-menu. We NEED the boot-menu, we don't need any kind of logo in it. So
please, Scott, put back the menu and just delete the ascii art or at least
confirm that the menu is going to reappear in some way or the other.
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