Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 01:30:48 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: New FreeBSD logo Message-ID: <446A7CC8.14910.31B3FF2@pjklist.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20060515085718.DBE6016A650@hub.freebsd.org>
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Sorry to be jumping into this late. On 15 May 2006 at 8:57, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > No, you get to vote on the selection of various bits of code changes. That sounds more realistic to me than assuming committers are also the sole FreeBSD "esthetic committee" too. > But > no amount of your voting is going to instantly change the recognized logo > of FreeBSD from Beastie to the sex-toy. Ranting on questions has far more > ability to make or break use of the sex-toy logo by the FreeBSD userbase > than voting on current. I must admit that logo seemed a bit strange to me when I saw it on the website. Sorta cold and a bit too abstract for my taste. It reminds me of what Mozilla did with their dragon - removed it from the browser's splash-screen because some minority of people thought it was "demonic" or "evil" or something. So sad. I think people need to get over themselves and personally I think the "beastie" is nicely irreverent and has a palpable "personality" one can relate to, especially since you can be sure that very few "gargantuan publicly-held companies" would ever get away with using something similiar. I wonder if anyone has heard Kirk McKusick's input on this.. then again, perhaps he's a bit biased? :-)
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