Logo Contest
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 9 20:34:52 PST 2005
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:21:35 +0800
Erich Dollansky <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> 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.
No he is not, and will not until YOU and everyone else chooses
to drop him. This is completely theoretical and goes against
everything being said by those who are intending to keep both;
i.e.: core, and the many others who will gladly use both.
> >
> >>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
Hi, we are not Microsoft.
>
> > 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.
And keeping us from enhancing this image is not the way to go. :(
--
Tom Rhodes
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