Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:46:42 -0600 From: "David Board (dacoto.com)" <dacoto@gmail.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Project is announcing a public competition for the new logo design. ???? Message-ID: <b191d6d5050209104637a4ab9f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <420A5898.2010508@freebsd.org> References: <420A4781.8080002@yahoo.com.br> <420A5898.2010508@freebsd.org>
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I agree 100%. Thank you for the very well written post. Dave On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:38:16 +0000, Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote: > Ricardo Alves dos Reis wrote: > > 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 > > design. You can find the rules of the competition in this document. > > > > http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/announce.txt ?????? > > >=20 > <sigh> So, the FreeBSD Project is giving in to the narrow-minded, > puritanical, moral minority who, despite their preachings are not very > well-informed as they don't know the difference between 'demon' and > 'daemon'. Is this a sign (or a victim perhaps?) of the "growing > conservatism sweeping Bush's America"? >=20 > The Mozilla project had/has to put up with similar crap about it's logo > because numpties think that the red star represents Communism. >=20 > Oh, and since we're being all Politically Correct.... >=20 > * The logo must not exploit or offend a person's sex, race, > religion, morality, culture , nor be salacious or > pornographic. >=20 > we should drop 'BSD' from the name because, over the years, plenty of > people have assumed that *BSD is some form of kinky sex outfit - same > problem, they don't know the difference between BSD and BDSM. >=20 > I see that NetBSD and OpenBSD have already dropped Beastie - the latter > adopting a butt-ugly fish (the style of which implies bloated fatware to > me). >=20 > Beastie has been the BSD symbol for nearly 17 years (based on Kirk's > copyright date of 1988) and, as far as I'm concerned it always will be. >=20 > Just my =E2=82=AC0.02 of course. >=20 > Mark >=20 > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0506-0, 08/02/2005 > Tested on: 09/02/2005 18:38:18 > avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" >=20 --=20 David Board david@dacoto.com www.dacoto.com 816.686.8389
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