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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU!mckusick From: mckusick@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Kirk McKusick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD T-Shirts? Date: 12 Aug 1993 23:33:58 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Sender: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@CS.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: <24ek16$co2@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <26268@alice.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: toe.cs.berkeley.edu A brief note of clarification on the recently announced T-shirts. The T-shirts were first designed shortly after the USL suit was filed against the University of California. At the time USL was majority owned by AT&T, so I deemed it appropriate to have the BSD daemon skewer a deflated blue horizontally striped ball. With the sale of USL to Novell, it no longer seems appropriate to lambaste AT&T; since Novell has not yet made their position clear, it also seemed premature to lambaste them. So, the latest rendition of the T-shirt pokes holes in the corporate logo most directly responsible for the lawsuit. While many may confuse the deflated angular mass on the trident as purple spaghetti, those reading this newsgroup will recognize its true identity: the dreaded Deathsquare. Because of several requests from the little people and the giants, I will be adding size Small and XXLarge to the set of available sizes that may be ordered. Also, I recently came across a box of the earlier shirts, so some of the orders were filled with these shirts. This same box also contained a few Medium-sized 4.3BSD daemon shirts (the 4.3BSD daemon appears on the cover of ``The Design and Implementation of 4.3BSD UNIX'' book). These are also available on a first come-first served basis. Kirk McKusick