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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