New FreeBSD logo

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On May 16, 2006, at 11:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chad
>> Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
>> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:08 AM
>> To: Henry Lenzi
>> Cc: questions at freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt
>> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD logo
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 15, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Henry Lenzi wrote:
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>>>> It was, I am sorry to say.  The core developer that pushed for all
>>>> this said he was tired of when presenting FreeBSD to have to field
>>>> a bunch of questions by people hung up over the devil image, it
>>>> distracted from the presentation of the operating system's  
>>>> features.
>>>>
>>>> Ted
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're kidding, right? Say you're kidding.
>>
>> Ted says lots of things.
>>
>
> In this case though, I am not "just saying a lot of things"
>
> See the following:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2005-February/ 
> 001592.
> html
>
> "...Unfortunately, the cute FreeBSD daemon is sometimes treated with
> misunderstanding in the religious and cultural context. That's why The
> FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new  
> logo ..."

That was written by "Ricardo Alves dos Reis" who as far as I can tell 
[1] does not hold any official capacity at the FreeBSD Foundation or  
in the groups of people (committers etc) who had/have a say.  In  
other words, it was one outsider's personal opinion.  It in now way  
says anything about the real reasons for the whole thing.


>
> Yes, Chad, we all know you love the new logo.  Just quit rewriting
> history
> to pretend that religion didn't have anything to do with the change.

Please read <http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/announce.txt> which is  
the "Official" rules and explanation.  Nothing in there that I can find.

Stop rewriting history yourself.  Your post above is embarrassing as  
you try and claim official status for someone's (who appears to be an  
outsider) personal opinion.

Chad


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> Ted

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