On Nov 1, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
And I am not trying to argue and make claims about how inexcusable it
is either. I merely pointed out to Ted that he is not in the FreeBSD
project and therefore does not have say.
Chad this is bullshit. First of all the ENTIRE point of this new
logo is
to increase USE of FreeBSD among the people that allegedly will not
use it because of religious "devil" objections. IN SHORT, this logo
is FOR THE USERS, NOT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE PROJECT.
This is factually incorrect.
The purpose of having a logo to replace the mascot as a logo was to
project a more professional image. And that is for the people in the
project who want to see FreeBSD taken more seriously as well as for
the users.
Beastie is a toy and unprofessional. He is fun and can be a great
mascot. But he is not a logo.
As a similar example: Apple Computer used to have a nice multi-
colored Apple logo. It was nice, but kind of toy-like and got old.
Apple replaced it with a much more professional looking modernized
one-color version. There was nothing wrong with the old version
except that it got old and dated and looked unprofessional and more
toy-like.
Same (generally speaking) is needed with FreeBSD. FreeBSD needs to
take a step upwards and become more professional looking. So think a
lot of users and obviously project members. There is a minority who
is offended by Beastie. I can't help that. A logo coincidentally
solves their problem as well, but that is not the main point. If you
think so you need to pull your head out of your dogmatic sandpile.
Chad
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