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New FreeBSD Logo Contest to Close on June 30

Posted by timothy on from the free-chuckie dept.

xbsd writes "The Official FreeBSD Logo Contest is closing on June 30, 2005. As of June 23 they have received 429 compliant submissions, but if you got the skills you still have a few hours left to submit a proposal. Now, is it time for F/OSS projects to follow NetBSD and get a more polished (or as some would say, 'corporate') public image?"

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  1. Re:Long live Beastie by nbritton · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here are a few reasons why we need a logo...

    1. Beastie is generic, it's associated with all of the BSDs and not specific to FreeBSD.
    2. We don't have a logo. Beastie is not, and never was, the logo for FreeBSD.
    3. Copyright and Trademark issues, Marshall McKusick holds all rights to him.
    4. Beastie is too complex, economically, for print media.

    Let me say again... Beastie is NOT being booted from FreeBSD and no, we did not cave into the demands of right-wing religious people. This is all about branding, marketing, and PR. And you could use the mozilla project as a case study of some of the positive side effects this could have for us.