Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-13 Thread Matthias Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope. Beastie is a way of life. I'd be quite upset if it were dropped for whatever reason. It is so intimately tied to FreeBSD that it would be a PR disaster if it were to be changed. NetBSD never had a real The BSD daemon image stems from around 4.3BSD, or an even earlier

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 2:06 AM -0800 2/12/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: For the last time, it is not the contest that I and others are objecting to. I am glad to hear that this message was the last time you mention it. Thanks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > Are you intentionally misinterpreting me? No, I'm correcting you. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Peter Risdon wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:56 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: [...] Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, FreeBSD is a commercially viable operatin

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Garance A Drosehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:59 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! And frankly,

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to chang

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > > Copyright does not enter the equation at all. What matters is the > > license. > Uh ... where there is no copyright, there is no license. Where there is > a license, there is a copyright. Are you intentionally misint

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > Copyright does not enter the equation at all. What matters is the > license. Uh ... where there is no copyright, there is no license. Where there is a license, there is a copyright. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joshua Tinnin writes: > > I don't think you understand the history of FreeBSD. Many people who > > work at Yahoo! are committers, and their employer not only knows about > > this but encourages it. > That's not good enough. The employer has to assign

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Garance A > Drosihn > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 12:56 PM > To: Bart Silverstrim; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Garance A Drosehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:59 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as > NetBSD!!! >

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-12 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: many in no way means a majority. many is more than a few, where a few is a handful (3-5 or so). There are probably more than a handful who do it as more than a hobby. A lot of good people do it on their own

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > And the standard answer is RTFM I don't know of anything in the manuals or on the Web site that answers this type of question. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Michael E . Conlen
On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:14 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: And the standard answer is RTFM I don't know of anything in the manuals or on the Web site that answers this type of question. This is a mailing list for questions about how to use FreeBSD, not why you should

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
athony atkielski =~ /tm452\d/ ? -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: And the standard answer is RTFM I don't know of anything in the manuals or on the Web site that answers this type of question. Typical. Cut out the rest of what I said. You need to ask the right people, not t

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: CIOs don't hang out in public mailing lists asking such questions But some of us hanging out on such lists have to answer these questions when talking to CIOs. And saying "I don't know" just doesn't wash. And

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > CIOs don't hang out in public mailing lists asking such questions But some of us hanging out on such lists have to answer these questions when talking to CIOs. And saying "I don't know" just doesn't wash. -- Anthony __

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > This is not the right place to ask such questions. Why is it called freebsd-questions? > If you are > *seriously* concerned about this, and do not think that the FreeBSD > core / foundation and their lawyers have not thought about this, then > you should b

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > I don't know. Go ask them. Look in the codebase yourself, or pay > someone to do so. Is this what you would tell someone contemplating a multimillion-dollar investment in a FreeBSD rollout to 10,000 servers? "I don't know"? "Look it up yourself"? This proj

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: You ask a dumb question, get such an answer. Be sure to tell the CIOs that. That'll do wonders for adoption of FreeBSD. CIOs don't hang out in public mailing lists asking such questions Chad You make assump

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Joshua Tinnin writes: I don't think you understand the history of FreeBSD. Many people who work at Yahoo! are committers, and their employer not only knows about this but encourages it. That's not good enough. The employer has to assign its cop

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > You ask a dumb question, get such an answer. Be sure to tell the CIOs that. That'll do wonders for adoption of FreeBSD. > You make assumptions that just because someone is paying someone to > work on FreeBSD that no one has thought of the copyright implicat

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Joshua Tinnin writes: > Do you have any proof of malfeasence? I don't need it. That's the way copyright normally works; it's not malfeasance. In order to protect the project, the status of copyright in all code written for the project must be very clearly established, in writing. > Are you pla

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Joshua Tinnin writes: > I don't think you understand the history of FreeBSD. Many people who > work at Yahoo! are committers, and their employer not only knows about > this but encourages it. That's not good enough. The employer has to assign its copyrights as well, or waive the usual work-for-h

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Risdon
Can I suggest a new mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter. On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 23:42 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Andrew L. Gould writes: > > > That's an assumption. > > The project needs to ask for proof of this, and not simply assume it. > > > We could as easily assume that the emplo

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Andrew L. Gould writes: > That's an assumption. The project needs to ask for proof of this, and not simply assume it. > We could as easily assume that the employers: Never assume anything in law. A wrong assumption could bury the project. -- Anthony

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: Their employers are paying them TO WORK on FreeBSD. They are not taking their code that they write for their employers and also sticking it in FreeBSD. Big difference. Not if their work consists of writing c

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: Look in the codebase No, tell me right here. CIOs aren't going to look in the codebase to try to find out if it's legal for them to use the operating system. You ask a dumb question, get such an answer. You m

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > Sorry, but the employers are freely offering the code and assigning > copyrights as necessary. OK, as long as the copyrights are assigned before any of the code finds its way into the released product. -- Anthony __

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > Their employers are paying them TO WORK on FreeBSD. They are not taking > their code that they write for their employers and also sticking it in > FreeBSD. Big difference. Not if their work consists of writing code. In that case, the copyright in the code b

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Friday 11 February 2005 02:13 pm, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Laszlo writes: > > I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid > > to work on it, most commiters/developers do it as a hobby. > > What written agreements do these committers have with th

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Friday 11 February 2005 02:16 pm, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > many in no way means a majority. many is more than a few, where a > > few is a handful (3-5 or so). There are probably more than a > > handful who do it as more than a hobb

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > Look in the codebase No, tell me right here. CIOs aren't going to look in the codebase to try to find out if it's legal for them to use the operating system. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:11 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > Many of the people that work > > on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it > > commercially. > > That would mean that their employers hold a copyright in the FreeBSD > cod

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Frank Laszlo writes: > I was refering to commiters paid BY FreeBSD to provide code. Ah ... I am reassured! You should always make that crystal-clear whenever you mention this in discussions with anybody. Any rumor started to the contrary could kill off interest in the OS in anyone considering i

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: many in no way means a majority. many is more than a few, where a few is a handful (3-5 or so). There are probably more than a handful who do it as more than a hobby. A lot of good people do it on their own

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Frank Laszlo writes: I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid to work on it, most commiters/developers do it as a hobby. What written agreements do these committers have with their employers? Normally, if you are paid to

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: Many of the people that work on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it commercially. That would mean that their employers hold a copyright in the FreeBSD code written by their employees

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Frank Laszlo writes: I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid to work on it, most commiters/developers do it as a hobby. What written agreements do these committers have with their employers? Normally, if you are paid to write something by y

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > many in no way means a majority. many is more than a few, where a few > is a handful (3-5 or so). There are probably more than a handful who > do it as more than a hobby. A lot of good people do it on their own > time as well, and I salute that. But a lo

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 4:34 PM -0500 2/11/05, Frank Laszlo wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: FreeBSD is driven by commercial matters. Many of the people that work on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it commercially. I wouldnt say many, there are few commit

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Frank Laszlo writes: > I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid to > work on it, most commiters/developers do it as a hobby. What written agreements do these committers have with their employers? Normally, if you are paid to write something by your employer, your employe

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 21:31 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > What if they put it > to a vote and the userbase all votes for logos that clearly > represent the Beastie image? What will have been the point of > the contest? I am a FreeBSD user. I read and sometimes respond to several of the lis

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > Many of the people that work > on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it > commercially. That would mean that their employers hold a copyright in the FreeBSD code written by their employees; this is a classic implicit work-for-hire ar

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:34 PM -0500 2/11/05, Frank Laszlo wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: FreeBSD is driven by commercial matters. Many of the people that work on it are paid to work on it by their employers, who are using it commercially. I wouldnt say many, there are few commiters who are actually paid t

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:09 PM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > While you seem determined to pretend that Robert Watson is > somehow the sole person interested in this, let me note I am > one of the FreeBSD committers who would like to see some new > ideas for a logo. Good. At least you have my respect n

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Frank Laszlo wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, suddenly gain a marketing department that is trying to steer FreeBS

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:56 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: [...] > >Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and > >not by commercial matters, FreeBSD is a commercially viable operating system. I happen to think it's the be

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:04:34 -0600, "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2005 08:14 am, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo? > > > > I'm glad you asked. > > > > Tux is a mascot

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, suddenly gain a marketing department that is trying to steer FreeBSD into the business sector? Is FreeBSD starting

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
> http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/bell_logos.html I'm not sure that 6 times in 110 years is "constantly changed" -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 08:00 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > Someone said people change logos all the time. That's flat out wrong. > When a company spends mucho dinero on marketing their logo, they don't > just flip around and decide to change their logo that they spent so > much money and

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 11, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Since when did FreeBSD, a project always driven by volunteers and not by commercial matters, suddenly gain a marketing department that is trying to steer FreeBSD into the business sector? Is FreeBSD starting to have marketing dictate technolo

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:00 AM -0500 2/11/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a contest for a new logo? We thought it would be nice, after fift

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 11 February 2005 08:14 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo? > > I'm glad you asked. > > Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: > > http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif >

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Frank Laszlo writes: > Are we forgetting about the printing aspect of things? The redhat logo > has some nice gradients in it. The GIF I'm looking at seems to contain only red and black, except for the drop shadow, which isn't part of the logo. > And they just plain suck, IMHO. They look too pu

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Napper writes: Its been my experience that the corporate suits get the perception of "teenage hacker" from the cartoonish mascots. Agreed. And their perception is not always incorrect. Am I the only one that finds some amusement in the referen

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Frank Laszlo
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicdebian.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmandrake.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/to

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Napper writes: > Its been my experience that the corporate suits get the > perception of "teenage hacker" from the cartoonish mascots. Agreed. And their perception is not always incorrect. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: > > http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif > http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicdebian.gif > http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicmandrake.gif > http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicredhat.gif >

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Louis LeBlanc writes: > They why would they care *what* the logo is? They wouldn't; but the logo has an effect on the people who write the checks, and it serves a useful purpose as a unifying identifier. The people who write the checks don't care about "skins," though, since they'll never actual

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Bart Silverstrim writes: > People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because > Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a > contest for a new logo? Beastie isn't a logo. There is no logo for FreeBSD at the moment. Creating one is probably a good i

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Vonleigh Simmons
People want to change the logo from Beastie to something else because Beastie isn't professional enough, so some committers decided to hold a contest for a new logo? As an artist here is how I see it: Beastie is a mascot, not a logo. It's like having "Disney" with a Mickey Mouse. The logo is eith

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0201 13:01]: > > On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > >Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > > >>That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original > >>debate. > > > >Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. > > Ju

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Greg Barniskis wrote: Bart Silverstrim wrote: Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you care if a business were that dumb...would you actually *want* them using it?

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Napper
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:53:17 -0600 Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would > > be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you > > care if a business were that dumb.

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Here's a page (a NetBSD logo contest entry) which addresses many of these concerns, and coincidentally underlines my point about the daemon not being exclusive to FreeBSD: http://homepage.mac.com/codesamurai/netbsd-logo-entry/ That is not bad. But is it sufficiently diffe

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/11/05 09:52 AM, Anthony Atkielski sat at the `puter and typed: > Mike Hauber writes: > > > Heh... This gives me an idea... How about FreeBSD "skins." The > > Beastie as the default (of course), and dis_ey-type themes for > > the "weak in the faith". If FreeBSD's attempt is not to be >

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo? I'm glad you asked. Tux is a mascot, not a logo. These are Linux logos: http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topiccaldera.gif http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicdebian.gif http://images.slashdot.org/to

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Greg Barniskis
Bart Silverstrim wrote: Out of curiosity, is Beastie so terrible, a logo, that a business would be stupid enough to base their server decisions based on it? Would you care if a business were that dumb...would you actually *want* them using it? The problem (from my point of view) really has a lo

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 11, 2005, at 2:18 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. Just to sum up things as I understand it... People want to change the logo from Beastie to

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Mike Hauber writes: > Heh... This gives me an idea... How about FreeBSD "skins." The > Beastie as the default (of course), and dis_ey-type themes for > the "weak in the faith". If FreeBSD's attempt is not to be > offensive to anyone, anywhere, anytime, then perhaps it just > needs to jump i

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Mike Hauber
On Friday 11 February 2005 12:31 am, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > There can be only ONE 'flagship' logo just as there is only one > company name in a conglomerate.  But there is plenty of space > for different subsidiary marks for the product. > > For example, Chevrolet, Buick, Saturn, these are all p

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > That is so not true that it makes me almost as angry as the original > debate. Maybe getting angry about a mere logo is a bad sign. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Garance A Drosehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:17 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as > NetBSD!!! > >

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Garance A Drosehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:17 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as > NetBSD!!! &g

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Garance A > Drosehn > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:26 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 12:50 AM -0800 2/10/05, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: No, sorry. The core team apparently feels that the way to do things now is to made decisions of this nature first, then have discussion later, rather than the reverse which previously has been the case. This contest came out because the developers

RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
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

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Louis LeBlanc writes: > If there were a *reasonable* basis for changing, I would be in favor > of the proposed change. Sadly, but in favor nonetheless. The > "business" reasons mentioned are not sound given the fact that there > are *real* devils used as mascots and logos in the food, sports, an

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/10/05 02:26 PM, Garance A Drosehn sat at the `puter and typed: > At 10:59 AM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > > > > Logos need to be as neutral as possible, since they will be > > > very widely used and very heavily imprinted in customers' > > > minds. They must not conjure up t

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:59 AM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > Logos need to be as neutral as possible, since they will be > very widely used and very heavily imprinted in customers' > minds. They must not conjure up thoughts of anything except > the brand they represent. Neutrality is purely objective

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/09/05 09:45 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > And in the past, I've only ever worn or > > used logos if they were for the Red Sox, the Patriots (and even those > > sparingly), or a free shirt. Hey, free i

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Louis LeBlanc wrote: And in the past, I've only ever worn or used logos if they were for the Red Sox, the Patriots (and even those sparingly), or a free shirt. Hey, free is free, right? What, no Celtics? I will admit to having bought lots of Apple shirts and a Celtics s

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 07:09 pm, - wrote: > http://www.petitiononline.com/fbsdmsc1/petition.html > > Julien Gabel wrote: > >>>See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public > >>> competition for the new logo design. " in -advocacy - I've > >>> already replied with my views on

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread -
http://www.petitiononline.com/fbsdmsc1/petition.html Julien Gabel wrote: See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. " in -advocacy - I've already replied with my views on the subject, along the same lines as your comments. I'm not s

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/09/05 11:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at the `puter and typed: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:56:34PM +0100, Oliver Leitner wrote: > > i think the threadstarter was asking a question, and he just put his own > > opinion to it, i think thats a good reason why it should come to this > > mailing

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:56:34PM +0100, Oliver Leitner wrote: > i think the threadstarter was asking a question, and he just put his own > opinion to it, i think thats a good reason why it should come to this > mailinglist, after all it fits the two major reasons, why there are > mailinglists.

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 22:56, Frank Laszlo wrote: > Oliver Leitner wrote: > >On Wednesday 09 February 2005 22:33, Mark Rowlands wrote: > >>On Wednesday 09 February 2005 21:06, Timothy Luoma wrote: > >>>On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Chad Morland wrote: > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:48:19 +,

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Len Zettel
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 07:11 pm, Mark Ovens wrote: > Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > On 02/09/05 04:32 PM, Charles-André Landemaine sat at the `puter and typed: > >> This will sign the death of FreeBSD. > >> > >> How could they believe such crap?! Who said beastie is evil?! This is > >> totally no

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Frank Laszlo
Oliver Leitner wrote: On Wednesday 09 February 2005 22:33, Mark Rowlands wrote: On Wednesday 09 February 2005 21:06, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Chad Morland wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:48:19 +, Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See the thread

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Oliver Leitner
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 22:33, Mark Rowlands wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 21:06, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Chad Morland wrote: > > > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:48:19 +, Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > wrote: > > >> See the thread "The FreeBSD Pr

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 21:06, Timothy Luoma wrote: > On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Chad Morland wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:48:19 +, Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >> See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition > >> for the new logo design.

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Albert Shih
Le 09/02/2005 à 16:32:42-0200, Charles-André Landemaine a écrit > This will sign the death of FreeBSD. > > How could they believe such crap?! Who said beastie is evil?! This is > totally non-sense, it's a logo, it's not the CD cover of a heavy-metal > release...! > > I think the reasons are the

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:28:37AM -0800, sp0ng3b0b wrote: > Change is good. Time to try something different. I think some folks > should relax and not get too upset. There are worse things going on in > the world... Nope. Beastie is a way of life. I'd be quite upset if it were dropped for whate

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Chad Morland wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:48:19 +, Mark Ovens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. " in -advocacy - I've already replied with my views on the subject, along t

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Guillermo Garcia-Rojas
I think we all are happy with beastie, there is no reason to change it, if some idiots think it's evil, that's their problem. I hope no one sends a new logo for the contest, and if what FreeBSD Project wants is a new "FreeBSD" type of font, or style, then do it, but don't blow beastie away. It wo

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Oliver Leitner
"if we dont take care of the little things around us, what right do we have to be upset on the bigger ones?" On Wednesday 09 February 2005 20:28, sp0ng3b0b wrote: > Charles-André Landemaine wrote: > > This will sign the death of FreeBSD. > > Oh please, wake me up, it's a nightmare!!! > > Come on

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 12:58 pm, Julien Gabel wrote: > >> See the thread "The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public > >> competition for the new logo design. " in -advocacy - I've > >> already replied with my views on the subject, along the same lines > >> as your comments. > > > > I'm

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