From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 3 21:10:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10789 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 21:10:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA10765 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 21:10:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 33834 invoked from network); 4 May 1998 04:10:41 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 4 May 1998 04:10:41 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm5-164.realtime.net [205.238.146.164]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA08172; Sun, 3 May 1998 23:10:33 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 23:18:05 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Greg Lehey , Sue Blake , "Kenneth P. Stox" , Chris Swinford , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slogan In-Reply-To: <28538.894199825@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ouch! I just sprained my brains! A conversation, world wide, with jokes in LATIN! ;-) Seriously, (really) the slogan, handle, or whatever should remain: Powerd by FreeBSD It is a simple clean statement. It also has the advantage of eliciting questions, pulling the reader in, rather than making a statement that chalenges. I don't think throwing a gauntlet down is what you want to do. Having someone ask you, "What is powered?" "How powerful is it?" is a good first step. Someone has posted something about this on bumper stickers (sorry but I don't remember who), and I would put one on _my_ car. I think it would cause people to ask me what it means. "Powered by FreeBSD" rather reminds me of the days when I had money, oh so long ago, and a big sports fishing boat "powered by Cummins", twin turbocharged diesels. Everyone would go "Oooooh". Even though my ego is paying karmic bills, I think the "Oooooh" part is what we are after and "Powered by FreeBSD" says it. Comments? John On Sun, 3 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I take that last message back. It's either "coii" or "coivi". > > The irony, of course, is that more people probably got the > joke with incorrect latin as would have gotten it without. :) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message