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FreeBSD Foundation Logo Contest

Posted by Hemos on from the start-your-pen-about dept.

Alcachofo writes "The FreeBSD Foundation needs a logo. If you want to help, check out the details here. Start drawing, and send your entries to them."

23 comments

  1. Again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why the fuck isn't this on the front page?

    1. Re:Again by rm-r · · Score: 1

      Yeah, something like this is as deserving as the name-the-mySQL-dolphin competition recently (I liked Bottleneck the Bottlenose ;-)

      Oh well, best get the Krayons out.

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  2. the prize by liquidsin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fame and glory? That's lame. They should give away free copies of their OS. Now THAT would be a prize!

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    1. Re:the prize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      duh. ftp.freebsd.org

    2. Re:the prize by Misch · · Score: 2

      The prize: fame and glory!

      What??? You don't even get the people's ovation forever??? <Eric Cartman> Screw this! I'm going for Iron Chef! </Eric Cartman>

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  3. What a deal! by m_evanchik · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gee, "All entries become the property of the FreeBSD Foundation." That sure sounds like a sweet open-source kind of deal. You send them a picture, for their product, and they get to own it whether they use it or not!

    Excessive legalisms are a bane of existence, but so are stupid ones. I don't know the enforceability of this joke of a contest rule, since generally a contract is only valid if both parties get something of value in the deal.

    Would programmers put up with such a noxious clause regarding their software submissions to FreeBSD?

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    1. Re:What a deal! by Arandir · · Score: 3, Insightful

      That type of clause is Standard Operating Procedure for contests. Everyone from your local radio station to Publisher's Clearinghouse uses them.

      Does the copyright for your logo get transferred to them? Not automatically. That can only be done via an explicit legal document signed by you. The entries that they own are the physical media they are on. If you send them a photograph, they own the photograph. This is a Good Thing, since they don't have to ask your permission after the contest end whether or not they can dump it in the trash.

      I suspect that the submitter of the winning entry will be contacted as to transferal of copyrights, trademarks, or licensing that allows the foundation to use it for any purpose.

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    2. Re:What a deal! by kootch · · Score: 2

      so you send em a slightly chunked gif file. to be used as a logo/print letterhead and be nice and tidy, it would need to be an eps or high res. jpg.

      easy enough just not to give em that until you win.

  4. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No, No, no. You submit your picture to the Free BSD foundation. I don't recognize the format, is this 1969 GIF, or 1972 ASCII-GNU_JPEG?

  5. takeittux.jpg by sinserve · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, that is not as offensive as it looks.

    FreeBSD has already been in bed with half of dozen
    corporations, and that makes Daemon quite a gigolo.

    1. Re:takeittux.jpg by Arandir · · Score: 1

      There's a good slogan in there somewhere. How about "FreeBSD: We Get Around"?

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  6. Re:the prize (OT) - Your sig... by xrayspx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Should be ~/hand, unless hand is the top level of the ~, which I would hope it's not. I would imagine the full path would look more like /home/liquidsin/hand. Don't forget to:

    rm -rf ~/bladder after about each fifth iteration of your mv command.

    Too bad you can't ln -s /dev/null ~/bladder, I guess if you had Expensive Surgery, you could.

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  7. no offence but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    that FreeBSD logo is cute, but it must've put alot of PHBs off giving permision to have the OS installed on their company's computers.

  8. Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe they could just steel the Darwin logo, but like, umm, make it metal to show security..yea..that's it.

  9. How about a dead daemon? by Electric+Troll · · Score: 0, Funny

    It would perfectly symbolise the *BSD as well as the dying.

  10. Re:the prize (OT) - Your sig... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    its called a colonoscopy, junior. get with the program, mother fucker.

    /* s */

  11. Re:the prize (OT) - Your sig... by xrayspx · · Score: 1

    Wrong, it's an iliostomy. A Colonoscopy is is where they stick a fibre up your ass to take a peek. A Colostomy is where you poop in a bag, iliostomy is where you piss in a bag.

    Sorry, pop, I'm with the program.

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  12. Re:the prize (OT) - Your sig... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, back in the day, we didn't have mini-cameras to ram up our asses. any procedure dealing with the ass was an iliostomy.

    Go back to the cubicle, junior

  13. Hard times for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    So why now? Why did *BSD f:il? Once you get past the fact that *BSDis fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. *BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personalities?

    The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more dsperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shround over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.

    1. Re:Hard times for *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bahh, I have less problems porting across multiple BSDs than I do multiple Linux Distros.