Logo timeline

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Your remark just made me think about that:
As far as free software are concerned, we all know the legitimity 
and leadership of people in the community come from the achievment done 
in developping free software.

Hilaire

On Wed, 09 May 2001 08:40:35 +0200
josX <joshb at xs4all.nl> wrote:

josX> 
josX> > Dear friends of the FSFE,
josX> > I have taken the task to tell you the latest news about=20
josX> > how we hope to have a logo for the FSFE soon.
josX> > There has been quite some discussion within the core team.
josX> > We like to take the opportunity to again thank everybody who
josX> > contributed to the effort. Every idea and draft was useful for us
josX> > and needed so that we could make up our mind about coming up with a
josX> > logo which is best for the the FSFE.
josX> > Up to now a couple of logos have been ruled out so far by members of the
josX> > core team who feel strongly about not choosing such a logo:
josX> > 	- Anja's "GNU and Europe" is vetoed=20
josX>                                   ^^^^^^^^^
josX> > 		http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~anja/gnu/
josX> > 	- The "GNU" logo (which was also temporarily used on
josX> > 	fsfeurope.org) is vetoed
josX>                        ^^^^^^^^^
josX> <snp>
josX> 
josX> You are kidding, right ;-)!
josX> 
josX> You know what I think about you FSF-E?
josX> You are here for the money, and for the power too.
josX> 
josX> Press release: ""this is the source for ```Authorative''' information
josX> regarding free software in Europe?????"
josX> The non-democratic core-team has spoken it's veto.... and GEE this is the
josX> FIRST dicesion you ever make !!! so we can get used to your dominance
josX> soon?
josX> 
josX> You are not hackers, you are not free software, you are a bunch of shrude
josX> managers seeking to exploit free software. A big villa huh? with a nice
josX> garden huh? expensive restaurant? .... I see you put your money where you
josX> mouth is... /literaly/, not figuratively. Why don't you sell the villa to
josX> generate funds so we can buy computers for the kernel-hackers? Why don't
josX> you use that money to start printing free stickers to be given away 
josX> wherever possible etc etc etc?
josX> 
josX> Don't think you can kid everyone.
josX> 
josX> Jos
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