Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Linux logo | Date | Mon, 6 May 1996 21:03:09 +0100 (BST) |
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> There is no need to get gratuitously nasty. The three people I > presented this idea to at dinner said "Hmmm, if Linux is so great, why > do they have to attack BSD like that?"
It was meant as a humour item for the Linux community. Internal humour frequently isnt very funny to outsiders. I wouldnt want it as a T shirt for example.
> 1) It is a cheap shot. The BSD camp could just as easily come > back at you with, say, a road-pizza penguin with tire > tracks across it and a four wheel drive truck driving off > in the distance with deamon horns sticking out of > windows...
I think I'd have to order one if they did. The improved suggestion for a T shirt bounced via a few people now is a BSD daemon and Penguin shaking hands (possibly with a GNU somewhere around) and "Free Software Is About Co-Operation" on it.
The big issue with this is we _don't_ want a daemon anywhere on a real Linux product logo (not only because of Kirk but also because the BSD logo is found very offensive by some religious groups).
> 2) McKusick would likely not approve of such a logo and he > holds the trademark on the daemon. There have been many
See "Satire" in Copyright Law documents.
> more mondane uses of the logo that he's disapproved. You'd > likely be opening yourself up for legal action. Especially > if someone wanted to use it as artwork for a CDROM.
Ughh.. a BSD trashing CDROM logo is _definitely_ NOT what I'd want. Thats bad.
Alan
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