At 10:59 AM -0500 2/10/05, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
>
> Logos need to be as neutral as possible, since they will be
> very widely used and very heavily imprinted in customers'
> minds. They must not conjure up thoughts of anything except
> the brand they represent.
Neutrality is purely objective in this case (and many others).
Uninformed neutrality can be highly inflammatory. Beastie is only
considered inflammatory to those uninformed fundamentalists who
haven't been satisfied beating down every other freedom in this
country and need someone or something else to pick on. Next
they'll be burning books and witches again.
It is interesting that I constantly hear "FreeBSD MUST have the
Beastie as the only logo for FreeBSD. We MUST NOT even consider
any other logo -- because if we consider ANY other logo, we will
be close-minded!".
So, there is one-and-only-one valid logo for FreeBSD, and that
is because FreeBSD is so very open-minded?
Note that the contest is just to see what logos people can come
up with. It's not like we are demanding that the logo must have
angels in it, or a picture of some other religious figure.
Nothing more than "Let's see what ideas people can come up with".
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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