Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:55:04 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!! Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEFGFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050210055117.GA96699@keyslapper.net>
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > On 02/09/05 09:45 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC sat at the > `puter and typed: > > Yes, but business is why Microsoft Windows (*) sucks old rocks. > Microsoft is in business to make money, not better software. I was > always under the impression that while the FreeBSD foundation was "in > business" to promote FreeBSD, the chief focus of the core team has > always been a better OS. Keeping Beastie is a statement of sorts that > the FreeBSD team is NOT interested in business, just their work. > > Once upon a time, a geek could get by with their idiosyncrasies > because they were obviously not interested in the power points that > the businessmen and politicians wanted. They were only interested in > their gadgetry, software, and whatever cool new technology came along. > Now, one by one, everyone's worried about "business like" images, > logos, and whatnot. > Hi Louis, Yep, I was wondering how long it would take before someone figured this one out. We know the real rea$on$ that this logo change is being contemplated, don't we. > You may be right, but I still strongly (but respectfully) disagree. > And I strongly disagree without any respect. Respectful disagreement is one of the power points that the businessmen and politicians want, it has never been a geek idiosyncracy. Ted
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