From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 2 00:25:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 BB04216A421 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:25:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ke.han@redstarling.com) Received: from smtp102.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp102.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DA8043D66 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:25:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ke.han@redstarling.com) Received: (qmail 20648 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2005 00:00:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (jhancock@patternware.com@218.79.213.163 with plain) by smtp102.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Nov 2005 00:00:36 -0000 Message-ID: <436801A4.5010901@redstarling.com> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:00:36 +0800 From: "ke.han" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20051101193923.GB8134@teddy.fas.com> <200511020007.28460.danny@ricin.com> <3cf08c810511011520rf779b1fy8343bf78232137dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3cf08c810511011520rf779b1fy8343bf78232137dc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: New Logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:25:21 -0000 Dear arguing list... I am new to freeBSD this year and am very happy with the community (mostly) and the product. I don't at all feel a new logo (or replacing the mascot, depending on your point of view) is necessary and I was not aware, until reading this thread that it was in progress. The new web site design was a good step towards corporate polish. This does not mean the logo/mascot needs replacing as well. I have studied the winning logo and find the artwork of high quality, but certainly not an acceptable replacement for what already exists. In any efforts to expand the market share of freeBSD, I suggest the following: a - It is important to show professionalism, courtesy and restraint as a community. I chose to move from Linux to freeBSD in large part because of the quality of the community and documentation. Public fits on the maillists do more damage to any attempt at large corporate acceptance than a new logo might help. b - I think that sharing a common daemon logo/mascot with the other BSDs is a good thing. Linux has done well with the various penguin effects. Don't worry too much about this. Just accept what users already have adopted. thanks, ke han virgil huston wrote: > On 11/1/05, Danny Pansters wrote: > >>On Tuesday 1 November 2005 19:39, stan wrote: >> >>>YUK!!!!!!!!! >> >>OK I will honestly tell you my first reaction: I laughed until I fell off my >>chair. Then I put my hand in front of my mouth and whispered OMG. >> > > > This logo is so bad, especially from a marketing perspective, that it > is almost laughable. I hope it disappears quickly. Whoever did this > was not a professional graphic designer who knows marketeting and what > a logo is for. Sorry to be so brutal. > VHH > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >