Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:26:18 -0500 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!! Message-ID: <p06200708be315f521112@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050210155900.GD89175@keyslapper.net> References: <200502092223.01650.algould@datawok.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEFGFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1905317067.20050210103050@wanadoo.fr> <20050210155900.GD89175@keyslapper.net>
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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
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