Logo Contest

Erich Dollansky oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Wed Feb 9 20:19:35 PST 2005


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.
> 
>>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

> 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.

Erich


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