Logo Contest

[Peter Kieser]

When the Project decides that political correctness is more important 
than a tradition dating back over 20 years, something is wrong.

Personally I really don't care if a user selects another OS based on the 
fact that we have a devil as our mascot. They are better off on another 
OS anyways, because they're likely to cause problems -- because people 
with that kind of attitude are likely to bring up other "issues" with 
our "product".

--Peter

Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:

>Hello, Robert Watson!
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>On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:13:39PM +0000, you wrote:
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>>>I'd like to voice my support for the logo competition. 
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>>>I was particularly pleased to read a comment on Daemon News that Beastie
>>>would remain the mascot and that the logo and mascot are being
>>>separated.  I am hopeful that this comment was accurate. 
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>>>...now, if I could only draw...... 
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>>The comment is accurate.  We'd like to get a logo we can provide to
>>companies that are willing to stick it on their products as "supporting
>>FreeBSD" -- while we all love the Daemon, we know that not every company
>>can stick it on their Ethernet card box or server support web page.  The
>>intent is to keep Beastie as the Mascot, and you'll still see him all over
>>the place.  I can't imagine that FreeBSD t-shirts will stop holding him,
>>let alone the large number of web pages, CDROM distributions, and so on.
>>And don't forget the stuffed animal Beasties :-).
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>But I've already seen some products which represented Beastie as
>"Designed for FreeBSD" (actually they mean "Designed to be supported by
>FreeBSD" :).
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>Heh, anyway, political correctness is a$$pain for me...
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>>For entertainment value, I should scan in the anonymous letter I received
>>from someone in Kansas a few years ago.  It compared the Beastie to using
>>Osama Bin Laden as the FreeBSD logo, and was CC'd to my company and
>>research sponsors. It's a classic :-).  Of course, it wasn't appreciated
>>at work because this was a bit after the anthrax scare, and anonymous
>>mailed envelopes weren't real popular. 
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