Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 01:27:11 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Re: http://www.performance-computing.com/features/9810of1.shtml Message-ID: <3927.909217631.1@time.cdrom.com>
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------- =_aaaaaaaaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Original Message To: MLam@mfi.com (May Lam) Cc: mckusick@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: http://www.performance-computing.com/features/9810of1.shtml In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:15:30 PDT." <001E4D04.CE21230@mfi.com> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 01:27:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3927.909217631@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Hmmmm. It's sort of too bad that you didn't take my edits back for the article which was eventually published, but the artwork you used to accompany it is an outright disaster. I'm all for competetive comparisions with Linux or I wouldn't have written the article in the first place, but showing a daemon outright skewering a penguin with his pitchfork only incites the basest of emotions in many readers and casts doubt over the entire article. If the author is willing to stoop to cheap tactics like going after the opposition's mascot, the logic goes, then the content must not be any better. Furthermore, you never gave me any inkling that such artwork might be used and I would never have approved or submitted the article for publication had I known you had something like this in mind. Not only is it incompatible with my goals for FreeBSD evangelism, but such use is also specifically prohibited by the trademark holder for the daemon image, Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick (cc'd). Don't get me wrong - I've got as good a sense of humor as the next person and would probably have laughed had someone shown me such an image in private, but for a public article like this it's simply inappropriate in the extreme and I would greatly appreciate another, less potentially offensive, graphic in its place. I would also appreciate this message being cited in the feedback section so that people are aware of the fact that this was never my idea at all. I'm now likely to come under quite a bit of fire over this. :-( Best regards, - Jordan ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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