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Curtis Napier posted <443C32C2.2070305@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:50:42 -0400: |
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> Jan Kundrát wrote: |
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>> 17:33 <@jkt|> drobbins: actually, it has been mentioned in the recent |
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>> thread on -dev ML that you own the copyright or something of the flying |
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>> saucer on w.g.o |
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>> 17:33 <@jkt|> drobbins: and there was a questino if you'd agree if we |
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>> continued to use it |
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>> [...] |
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>> 17:38 <@drobbins> jkt|, yeah, I don't care |
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> Not promising a front and center place like he has now but I'll work him |
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> into it somehow or other. |
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When you place it, consider linking it to a history or some explanation or |
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something. He's certainly cute and all that, but I've always wondered |
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just what he has to do with Gentoo, having the feeling that there's some |
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symbolism or something that I'm missing. |
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My opinion is that without some sort of explanatory link, all he does is |
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reinforce the already too prevalent idea that Gentoo is just for a bunch |
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of spaced out ricers and fringe users that don't have anything better to |
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do with their computers than compile and recompile all day. It's just |
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noise on the page that doesn't seem to apply to anything else on the page, |
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and therefore doesn't look professional. Again, maybe I just missed the |
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symbolism somewhere, but that's my opinion. Put a caption on him, make |
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him link to something, and it'll look better. |
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Maybe make him the documentation and help section icon? Or the icon for |
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contact information (Gentoo developer listing, etc)? Something. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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