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Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo?
Ridgelift writes "Eric S. Raymond is proposing a new logo for Hackerdom. 'The Linux folks have their penguin and the
BSDers their demon.
Perl's got a camel, FSF
fans have their gnu and OSI's
got an open-source
logo. What we haven't had, historically, is an emblem that
represents the entire hacker community of which all these
groups are parts. This is a proposal that we adopt one - the glider pattern from the Game of Life.'"
Admittedly, the "glider" was cool. Everybody played life, everyone knew that crosses were stable and gliders would fly till they impacted - it's a universal identifier for a lot of people.
But the BSD logo and the Linux logo are brands, they're symbols for a codebase, not a loosely and contentiously organized group which most people off the street would mistakenly identify as a word for computer criminals. This really doesn't make any sense- what are you branding yourself as? Are you an ESR/hacker? What if by some fluke you just never played life?
Anyway if we are going to give someone the responsiblity of branding an entire MOVEMENT, I'm not sure it should be some gun crazed wack job that would scare most moms out of the day care center.
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
With such unique retorts like that, you clearly aren't ;-p
"Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness." - M
First he pushes his stoopid python based kernel config, now a gay logo. Why doesn't he do something useful and quit reaching for more fame...
Hackers can't even agree on the definition of the word "hacker," why would they agree on a logo? Hell, they can't even decide the name of an operating system, hence the GNU/Linux BS. The logo should, nonetheless, be something that all hackers can identify with. That's why I propose the logo for hackerdom should be a hand, because it is a lifelong love partner for most of them.
...for Losers
"1'm k3wl. 1 c4n d0wnl04d 0th3r p30pl3's skr1pts 4nd run th3m! 4nd 1 c4n typ3 l1k3 4 f4g!"
Yeah - you guys are real leet, yo. Why not actually learn how things work?
is an elitist asshole. Every time I agree with him I feel dirty.
God I hate it when some marginalized group of people gets all excited... hey, maybe we can be the new elite and treat them like they treated us... yes, JUSTICE!
Jesus: the noble "hacker" term has to be applied by others. Uh, no, you can apply it to yourself after spending time alone with your computer, in the dark, for a long time.
But ESR thinks is a social thing. Hacker culture.
You know the hacker's I like (I are one!), the one's that said, to hell with needing approval, fuck it all I'll like what I want, Nih!
Like all writers of dictionaries, ESR believes he commands the language for having recorded it passably well.
fneck!
-pyrrho
Maybe it'll grow on me, maybe it won't, but at the moment, right now without any thinking on a purely emotional level, I think it's an incredibly stupid logo.