New FreeBSD Logo

[Beech Rintoul]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 00:30, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> On May 10, 2006, at 2:25 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > He became a mascot only after the 'new-logo' people
> > started agitating for the sex-ball.  Prior to that all the
> > literature referred to him as a logo, when the word logo was
> > used.  (which wasn't often, but it was used)
> >
> > This is nothing more than an argument of appeasement and
> > has been explained before in this forum, please quit insulting
> > our intelligence.  We all know that Beastie's place as the
> > logo has been supplanted, and your side won, and your crude
> > attempt to explain away Beastie is insulting.  You won, be
> > content with that.
>
> Wow, Ted a top-poster!
>
> A professional evaluation of "beastie" showed he was not a logo and
> had served as a poor-one at that in his ersatz role as a wanna-be
> logo.   (Note that I did not say that Beastie was poor but that he
> had served as a poor logo based on professional criteria of what
> makes a good logo).  Beastie has his place.
>
> Chad

That's all well and good, but I for one don't plan to replace the "powered by" 
beastie logo on any of my sites with that sex-toy. It would be interesting to 
see how many webmasters agree with me.

Beech


>
> > Ted
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Björn König
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:35 PM
> >> To: Lawrence Horvath
> >> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Logo
> >>
> >> Lawrence Horvath schrieb:
> >>> I quite like the new logo, i think the new one is far more
> >>> professional then the old one, though i liked them both.
> >>
> >> I would say that there isn't an old one. Beastie is a little bit
> >> older
> >> than FreeBSD and I would understand it as mascot, not as a logo.
> >> So the
> >> new logo is not a replacement, but rather something that is
> >> missing for
> >> many years; and Beastie is still alive.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>  Björn
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