New FreeBSD Logo

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Fabian Keil
>Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:06 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Logo
>
>
>"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
>Axel S. Gruner
>> >Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:46 AM
>> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> >Subject: RE: New FreeBSD Logo
>> >
>> >
>> >Am Mittwoch, den 10.05.2006, 02:05 -0700 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt:
>> >> My guess is it will be a long, long time before you see CDROMs
>> >> from anybody that have deleted Beastie and have the sex toy.
>> >
>> >At LinuxTag 2006 in Wiesbaden we had prepared a lot of CDs
>with the new
>> >Logo (what you call a "sex toy"?). We also used the new logo
>as a flag
>> >on our booth.
>> >You will find a few pictures here:
>> >http://www.encephalon.de/photo/bsd_bilder/lt2006/index.html
>> >
>> >So, the "long long time" was a really short time ;-).
>> >
>>
>> I think you missed the part of the post where I said:
>>
>> "people have to pay for, to see if those last as a product,"
>>
>> The context of the post made it pretty clear I was talking about
>> commercial CD's that are sold, not given away.
>
>Issue 3/2006 of the German magazine freeX has the new logo on
>its cover, on the included disc and it appears several times
>in the articles.
>
>http://www.cul.de/images/freex32006cg.jpg
>

Actually this isn't the logo, the nipples on it aren't recessed, but in
any case
this is really a great example of why this logo does nothing to help
the FreeBSD project.  What about the logo makes you think of an
operating system?  And what about this cover is at all compelling to
induce someone to pick up the magazine and buy it?

Ted