New FreeBSD logo
David Stanford
dthomas53 at gmail.com
Sat May 13 08:11:23 PDT 2006
On 5/13/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of David Stanford
> >Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 5:32 AM
> >To: reflex at rotten.com
> >Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: New FreeBSD logo
> >
> >
> >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.
>
> Your missing something - "they" didn't ask all us users if we wanted
> a new logo or not.
I wasn't aware they had to (?).
>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
>
> they wasted
IYOO
> 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.
>
> Unlikely. Most corporate logos change every 10-20 years or so. Some
> also have a raft of logos. For example Chrysler used to use the
> medallion for it's logo. Then they switched to the pentagram. Now
> they are back to the medallion and it's been redone. AT&T has also
> changed logos, they used to use the bell then the Death Star, now
> they are using a modifed Death Star. Fads and fashions
> in logos come and go. The current FreBSD sex toy logo is very
> much a current fashion, as abstract logos like that are all the
> rage now. But it's just going to get dated all the faster for that.
You have entirely too much time on your hands. But my statement meant that I
hoped the Project isn't swayed out of using the logo because of childish
posts such as these.
>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.
>
> Why throw more good money after bad?
Not sure I know what this means. However, I would love to hear how this,
among your *many* other posts, has contributed to this list.
>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.
> >
>
> The community doesen't want the new logo and the majority of the
> community
> prefers Beastie over the sex-toy.
You speak for the community?
>**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.**
> >
>
> like yourself?
Agreed, and this will be my last post on the subject - though, I'm sure it
won't be yours...
Ted
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-David
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