Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 10:06:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> Subject: Re: http://www.performance-computing.com/features/9810of1.shtml Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810241004530.5879-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19981024180607.A28824@freebie.lemis.com>
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Also , it seems the introduction on the "Features page" relies upon this
graphic :
"Linux might get all the
hype, but it's not the
only free UNIX. It might
not even be the best.
This online-only feature
helps you get to the
bottom of FreeBSD, so
it's not just the penguin
getting the point."
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Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net
Systems Administrator Rush Networking
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On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 October 1998 at 1:27:11 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > 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).
>
> Agreed in all points.
>
> > 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 think you're probably saying what I would "please get rid of that
> image, it's not too late", but the wording is not that strong. I
> think it should be. Maybe Kirk can send them a message saying "please
> remove, this infringes copyright".
>
> Nice article, BTW.
>
> Greg
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