Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:17:06 -0500 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <p06200709be316607a394@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEFGFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEFGFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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At 12:50 AM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> It is clear from >> reading both lists that much of the anger is based upon false >> assumptions, misinformation and incomplete editing of the leaked >> document. >> > >Sorry, but that is false. > >Much of the anger is based on Robert Watson (and whatever other >core members are arguing with him over this) not IMMEDIATELY >becoming completely forthright with the FreeBSD community as >soon as the leak occurred. Geez. Get real. One committer had *just* put up the site, and then other committers were given a chance to look it over and see if it all made sense. We wanted to given all committers a chance to cross-check it, and make sure we didn't forget to say anything important. What is up there right now is nothing more than a first draft. As far as I know, Robert responded on the same day that I found out that this rough-draft site had been mentioned in public. It's not like we've had six months of denials, with press-reporters hounding Robert every night on the evening news. Perhaps it was announced on slashdot a few days earlier, but frankly, I (for one) never read slashdot. That is not any conspiracy, it is simply that I don't have the time. I (for one) did not know the contest's web site was leaked until the article showed up at the bsdnews.com site. BSDnews. I work on BSD operating systems, so that's the web site that I read. >I am deeply concerned with what I see going on here. Since when >has the FreeBSD Project had "secret" information of a sales and >marketing nature? This is a brand new one to me. What a crazy thing to say. The whole purpose of this web site was to announce a PUBLIC CONTEST for ANYONE to submit their ideas for a possible new logo. Once we DID announce it, the public would have had 1-3 months to hash out whatever they wanted to hash out. (One of the reasons we had not already announced this web site is that we were still deciding how long that period should be. It started as one month, but I think now we're thinking maybe two or two-and-a-half months). >I can condone secrets in the area of leaglities - such as back in >the bad old days when UCB was sued by USL, there were many secrets, >a few that I and some others were able to ferret out but still >many buried, and still some people under gag orders. Man, you must see a lot of black helicopters every day you walk to work. It is not a "deep dark secret" to proof-read a web site before ANNOUNCING TO EVERYONE that they might WIN MONEY(!!) by reading that web site. Geez. I proof-read this message before I post it, and I'm only replying to comments from one moron with black helicopters flying out of his ass. How much more time should be spent proof- reading a public site which we intend to point everyone at? >Yes I understand that some commercial consultants and such have had >problems due to the logo being a devil image. But if Robert Watson >had wanted to respond to this then he should have brought it up >for discussion with the userbase immediately, not sneaked around >talking to his cronies at Apple Computer, trying to figure out how >to push this off onto the userbase in a way that people wouldn't >object to doing so. It is apparent that you are not interested in any facts, but Robert was not one of the main promoters of this idea. In fact, I don't remember him saying much of anything about it at the time we (FreeBSD committers) were debating it. >This logo competition is childish - 99% of the >FreeBSD community members are not graphic artists and couldn't draw >their way out of a paper bag - such a competition does not have as >it's goal that of obtaining an image, it's only goal is assuaging >pissed off people by pretending that they have a hand in the decision. More black helicopters. Geez. I expect all the submissions will be public, and then we (the committers) will pick the one we like the best. It is unquestionably true that I (for one) have no artistic talent. However, that does not mean that I can not possibly know anyone who makes a full-time living as a well-paid graphic artist. Nope. That simply must not be possible, even though RPI offers a degree in "Electronic Arts". And therefore it absolutely *must* be true that this contest will come up with a hand-drawn stick-figure logo. And it *must* be true that we've already picked that pathetic logo, and we're just announcing this contest as a cover story. Yep. It must be true. Ted says so. What a stupid position to take. [aside: a few years ago I paid one of my friends to draw up an idea I had for a logo, using malamutes, but we never did come up with something that we were really happy with. So nothing became of that. But he has drawn up other very nice things for me. So just because I cannot draw, does not mean I cannot find anyone to draw for me...] You might remember that the bsdnews.com site used to have a very nicely drawn cartoon strip. Extremely well drawn, IMO. It is a pity that you apparently don't get out enough to meet other people, but some of us do know people who are very artistic. Some of them even (*gasp*) USE FreeBSD. Maybe those users can't write a program, but they might like to contribute *THEIR* talents to the project. What would be wrong with that? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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