From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 19:26:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7447616A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:26:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FB243D54 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:26:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1AJQIW6003525 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:26:20 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20050210155900.GD89175@keyslapper.net> References: <200502092223.01650.algould@datawok.com> <1905317067.20050210103050@wanadoo.fr> <20050210155900.GD89175@keyslapper.net> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:26:18 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:26:21 -0000 At 10:59 AM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > > Logos need to be as neutral as possible, since they will be > > very widely used and very heavily imprinted in customers' > > minds. They must not conjure up thoughts of anything except > > the brand they represent. > >Neutrality is purely objective in this case (and many others). >Uninformed neutrality can be highly inflammatory. Beastie is only >considered inflammatory to those uninformed fundamentalists who >haven't been satisfied beating down every other freedom in this >country and need someone or something else to pick on. Next >they'll be burning books and witches again. It is interesting that I constantly hear "FreeBSD MUST have the Beastie as the only logo for FreeBSD. We MUST NOT even consider any other logo -- because if we consider ANY other logo, we will be close-minded!". So, there is one-and-only-one valid logo for FreeBSD, and that is because FreeBSD is so very open-minded? Note that the contest is just to see what logos people can come up with. It's not like we are demanding that the logo must have angels in it, or a picture of some other religious figure. Nothing more than "Let's see what ideas people can come up with". -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA