New FreeBSD logo

[David Stanford]

Why, oh why, would you post this?

So help me to understand...The FreeBSD Project takes great effort in
not only producing a truly _great_ operating system, trademarked as
being fast, robust, stable and secure, provides it to the world for
_free_, but also takes on the additional chore of attempting to
promote its growth in the corporate market by  introducing a new
logo...and then some, all for the community. And your repayment is to
aid in these, now, endless rants of verbal bashing of the Project's
logo, which had an obvious goal of gaining wider popularity among
busnesses for the purposes of making it bigger and better for, yes,
_you_ and every other one of its users. Maybe I'm going out on a limb
here, and maybe I'm solo dangling out there on it, but I feel a need
to say something in defense. They spent much valued donation money for
the logo and in legal fees, I'm sure, to obtain it, so I would assume
(and hope) it's here to stay. Furthermore, by continuing to post
threads like this you (and others) are hardly contributing to the
Project (or this list) and, in fact, are doing the exact opposite -
you are attempting to destroy the new logo's image by imaturely
calling it a "sex toy" and in turn are slowly taking away from those
precious dollars put into aquiring it. Maybe it's not the greatest
logo, but, regardless, the logo doesn't affect the code. Try to keep
that in mind. FreeBSD is a gift. And anyone who doesn't see that
should take another look at Microsoft's pricing options for a simple
Home edition of XP (now $99, five years after its initial release).
Please do the community a favor: Just say thanks and move along.

**Of course, this was not aimed at the general community, but more
specifically at the folks wasting everyone's inbox space the past few
days with this nonsense.**

-David

 On 5/11/06, reflex at rotten.com < reflex at rotten.com> wrote:
>  Oh my gosh,
>
> I thought people were exagerating about the sextoy logo, but after some late
> night research i found this, and was frankly disgusted.
>
>   http://www.toy-company.co.uk/index.html?target=p_1876.html&lang=en-gb
>
> It's like Linux having a midget in a PVC Nun outfit and calling him "Fux the
> Penguin".
>
> Best of luck,
>
>
> reflex
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