Subject: Re: NetBSD logo competition final?
To: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
From: David Maxwell <david@crlf.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 03/04/2004 11:20:29
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:38:04AM +0900, Jorgen Lundman wrote:
> > A logo design contest was announced with more than 100 submissions
> > three weeks before the competition closes - outcome of this will be
> > made public when the competition is closed and a new logo has been chosen.
> 
> Even though it is disappointing that the logo is being changed to the point 
> of driving people to Linux, I am surprised there is nowhere to look at 
> current submissions, nor voice an oppinion (not that I expected NetBSD to 
> be democratic) nor see the final choice, so we can start downloading Linux 
> :)

NetBSD is quite democratic. The constituency consists of several hundred
Developers - as listed on the website.

How would it be fair to early submitters of logos to display them before
the contest closed, and give later submitters a chance to one-up them?

-- 
David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX, like
mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is always dear,
but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live
in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. - Thomas Scoville