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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:34:49 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Logo Contest
Message-ID:  <20050209233449.6f2906e0@mobile.pittgoth.com>
In-Reply-To: <420AE14F.6050104@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <200502091349.00708.algould@datawok.com> <420ACD5E.3030708@pacific.net.sg> <200502092210.39490.algould@datawok.com> <420AE14F.6050104@pacific.net.sg>

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:21:35 +0800
Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 08:56 pm, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>this all sounds like a very stupid idea to me.
> >>
> >>This also sounds like the effort in the EU banning the swastika not
> >>seeing that some two billion people using it as a religious symbol.
> > 
> > 
> > No.  Your statement would be correct if Beastie were losing his status 
> > as the mascot.  Beastie is retaining his status as the mascot.
> > 
> Beastie is losing its status as a logo.

No he is not, and will not until YOU and everyone else chooses
to drop him.  This is completely theoretical and goes against
everything being said by those who are intending to keep both;
i.e.: core, and the many others who will gladly use both.

> > 
> >>I never ever heard that a company has chosen a product because of its
> >>logo.
> >>
> >>Do you believe that Windows is this successful because of its logo?
> >>
> >>Erich
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > FreeBSD has a powerful, serious, professional side that Beastie does not 
> 
> Do above attributes apply to the logo of the most successful software 
> package known as Windows?
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/default.mspx

Hi, we are not Microsoft.

> 
> > All religious and Political Correctness issues aside, do you have any 
> > objections to a more complete and accurate image for FreeBSD?
> > 
> FreeBSD already has this image.

And keeping us from enhancing this image is not the way to go.  :(

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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