New FreeBSD Logo

[DAve]

fbsd wrote:
> As a long time reader of this list I did not see any
> announcement of it here. Only after selection of the
> new logo was made was it talked about on this list.
> People were very up set with it them and the ground
> swell over this has only gotten bigger.

http://pixelhammer.com/aw_jeez.jpg

This has gone too far. Searching shows that the FreeBSD questions list 
had mention of this over a year ago.

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2005-February/076063.html

To be blunt about it, you and everyone else had their chance. My wife, a 
designer, knew FreeBSD had a logo contest and she wouldn't know FreeBSD 
from a martian if it were not for my T-shirt.

Anyone could have contributed. But like beta testing, most simply 
ignored the request to participate, preferring to wait until someone 
else did the hard work and made the tough decisions, then chose to bitch 
when the result was not want they wanted. It's apathy. Yea, I'm more 
than annoyed and this has been a long time coming.

How many people actually keep a development server running just to help 
open source developers test patches or updates, even when those patches 
and updates do not affect them?

How many donate to the souls who write the tools we use every day? Or do 
they just read the maillists when they need help, never offering to help 
others, and then get an attitude when the help they request doesn't 
arrive? A lot.

I constantly dog my employers to donate, let me have work time to help 
out on lists, purchase the books (Mailscanner and Rails) that help the 
developers, keep a development box for testing. They complain even 
though they could not compete in the market place had they been required 
to purchase licenses for all the software they use.

The Internet is the industry that open source built, and it has created 
a society of hand out junkies who think they should get everything their 
way, for free, right now.

This job isn't fun anymore.

DAve

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