New Slashdot T-Shirts On Sale Now

ThinkGeek has opened up their Slashdot Store, which among other fineries, is selling the all new Slashdot T-Shirts. We also have a surprise: In addition to the 3 winners we announced previously, by popular request, we added a 4th winner to the roster: Dan Sandler's 'Soothing Green Light' design. So go, buy all 4! And a hat! Do it! Also, Scott Lewallen made Icons & Wallpapers based on his Volatile Hyper Linkage design.

Just remember

[Anonymous Coward]

These shirts are neither free as in beer, nor free as in speech. Slashdot owns the new logos/designs, and YOU can't use them without their permission. Yay copyright!

I'd like to buy one

[Anonymous Coward]

But couldn't they have selected a shirt with a non-pretentious slogan? All of these are a little too much like "Can't live without Dasani". I mean "mainline geek culture" and "volatile hyperlinkage"?
What's wrong with a plain white T-shirt with the slashdot logo and "News for Nerds, stuff that matters" on the back?

Mainline design got changed

[cybermace5]

I noticed that the hypodermic needle design actually was changed to RJ-45; some were complaining that the RJ-11 design didn't make sense. Any respectable Slashdotter would have an Ethernet port installed, not a modem line!

Also remember

[NDPTAL85]

That the dot.com boom and bust has come and gone, you still need REAL MONEY to pay for things geeks like such as computers and internet access and that in order to make money you need a better business plan then "Lets just give away the fruits of our labor and hope our product sucks badly enough that our customers will need to hire a lot of support services from us!"

Yay mature individuals who realize money doesn't grow on trees!

I see Mac and Windows Icons...

[cnelzie]

...but no friggin' Linux icons!

What is this?

We demand Linux Icons Now!!!

Re:Just remember

[Anonymous Coward]

How is this insightful? Geez people, is everything an enemy now?

I buy CDs and movies on DVD! I wear the slashdot copyrighted shirt. I run SCO Unix and I drive gas guzzling SUVs! I'll never worship our new [insert word] overlords and in Soviet Russia, nothing eats me!

*gasp* To slashdot, I AM SATAN!

Slashdot meta stories

[gmhowell]

Okay Rob, we can't have /. meta stories about broken moderation, bitch slapping, and abusive editors, but we can have meta stories about selling t-shirts? Way to keep it real. You da man.

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Re:Just remember to feed the trolls

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice troll, OK I'll bite:

I'm pretty sure the slashdot crew wouldn't care if random individuals created their own stickers, wallpapers, themes, and t-shirts, but if you start selling your own /. merchandise in bulk then I think it's reasonable that any trademark owner can have the option of not allowing others to profit from that trademark.

In some parallel universe if Microsoft put the GNU logo on all of their packaging would you not support GNU's right to enforce that Microsoft remove that mark from their packaging, and if so then that is an assertion of the onwership of logos and trademarks. See, works either way.

Re:Also remember

[NDPTAL85]

I hear what you are saying but Slashdot or OSDN isn't overflowing with money. Everything they do has to make financial sense. The money from these shirts will probably help make Slashdot self-sufficient without needing to be subsidized by the rest of the OSDN. It would be hard to garuntee that revenue if someone else could make the shirts.

Whats more important, Slashdot surviving or adhering to a saying that isn't even true? Information isn't alive, it can't "want" anything.

Re:Also remember

[Anonymous Coward]

It just violates what the Slashdot seems to be about. Information wants to be free and what-not.

That bullshit has NOTHING to do with what Slashdot "seems to be about." Don't confuse the site's message--basically none--with what the trolls have co-opted it into.

Re:Slashdot meta stories

[cK-Gunslinger]

Okay Rob, we can't have /. meta stories about broken moderation, bitch slapping, and abusive editors, but we can have meta stories about selling t-shirts?

It's called "running your website the way you want to." Don't like it? Get your own website, get 3/4 million members, then do whatever the hell you want.

A little self-promotion like this doesn't hurt, but I sure as hell don't want to see a half-dozen stories a day about people whining about unfair moderations to their posts.

Re:New site design?

[AgentUSA]

Graphics heavy would never work with the bandwidth demands. But it wouldn't be that hard to significantly modernize the look of the site without using more graphics.

Re:My God

[Aadain2001]

Don't forget, there is a large geek girl, or cHiXoR, crowd out there that are actually pretty damn cute. Just check out some of those action shots for the ladies tshirts on thinkgeek ;)

Re:Also remember

[isorox]

People subscribe to slashdot, and dont get any real benefits (you can block ads in mozilla anyway, and seeing another dupe 20 minutes before the rest of the public?). Why do I spend 10 bucks on a tshirt when matalan have 5 for five pounds? Because I prefer to support slashdot. Why buy "fair trade" coffee over nescafe? Because you care were your money goes.

The people buying slashdot tshirts will buy the official ones. In the worst case, simply have a trademark (the slashdot image should be a trademark) on the tshirt. Remember trademarks are for consumer protection, so you know you get the real thing.

Re:Just remember

[Binary Gibbon]

Only the most insane, irrational zealot would pooh-pooh /all/ forms of copyright. Of course images and designs deserve to be copyrighted - or does anyone find acceptable the ridiculous treatment Bill Watterson's creations have at the hands of profiteering tee-shirt makers?

The community at large has always been more concerned with fair use; you should be able to listen to a song as much as you like, or mod your xbox if you paid for it, and by that same token you should be allowed to display whatever you want on your desktop or your wall. But you can't sell someone else's song for your own profit, and it is equally unethical to steal someone else's image and attempt to make some money off of that.