New BSD Fashions

A BSD User writes: "Yesterday, Daemon News announced a new line of BSD clothes. The clothes themselves look very cool and have a "Daemon Crossing" sign on them. It's nice to see Daemon News and their BSD Mall site filling in the hole recently left by WindRiver Systems."

Who are they aiming at?

[RupW]

Doesn't scream "nerd" - no URL, no explicit 'BSD'.

This, to me, is a good thing - I'll probably buy a T-shirt. If they were my thing, I might buy a cap. But it's an unknown logo with limited 'cool' so I wouldn't buy smarter or more clothes in the range.

On the other hand, maybe they've also missed the BSD evangelist market - the niche mark-me-as-a-geek and proud of it market. It's hard to see who they're pitching for, and I can only imagine they'll lose money - which is sad if you think BSD is worth supporting.

They could always try a serious promote-the-logo campaign, but it would always have nerd undercurrents and not be taken seriously.

Re:Who are they aiming at?

[Arandir]

Bzzzrtt! Get with the program...

From www.opensource.org: The advertising clause in the license appearing on BSD Unix files was officially rescinded by the Director of the Office of Technology Licensing of the University of California on July 22 1999. He states that clause 3 is "hereby deleted in its entirety."

Re:heh

[Kwikymart]

I probably shouldn't say things suck when you obviously havn't tried. Even if you did try, you were probably too closed minded and impatient to even learn properly. So what do you base your claim on? absolutley nothing? Yah, thats right. You provide no reason for why it sucks (except that nobody posts here). This is a linux-oriented site; it would be expected that not many BSD users would post here. Also, you post as an anonymous coward which basically nullifies anything you say automatically.

Oh, and let me get this straight. You connect nobody posting here as nobody using BSD. And under your logic, nobody using BSD means it sucks because nobody is developing. This is faulty logic, oversimplification. In fact, you are obviously trolling. You are making these false connections to get a rise out of people and to spew your insecurities. Please take your moronic hate-filled uselessness elsewhere.

Re:heh

[Arandir]

Yeah, sort of like the dearth of Linux related stories at daemonnews. Surfing through the BSD oriented sites you would get the impression that Linux must be dying.